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THE J. H. WILLIAMS CO 



Millbury, Mass. 




Plain and Hand Threading Shuttles 

DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED GERMAN HEDDLES, WOOD 
AND IRON END HEDDLE FRAMES 



WEBSTER LOOM HARNESS CO, Sole Agent 



For Fall River, Mass. 



Webster Loom Harness Co. 



AVILLIAM H. JENNINGS, Treasurer 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



LOOM HARNESS 

Special attention paid to the repairing of old harness 



209 BEDFORD ST. 



FALL RIVER, MASS. 



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THE continued success of the Textile 
Industry in this country depends upon 
the adoption of the most improved labor- 
saving machines so as to compete with 
foreign products made by help working 
longer hours and paid much less wages per 
day. Such machinery works to the mutual 
advantage of mill owners and operatives. 
In this line, 

Northrop Loom 

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I^ooms for tiie following wide 
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Wide and Narrow Sheetings, 
Print Cloths, Drills, Denims, 
Dobby Work, Worsted Dress 
A Goods, Damasks, Seamless 
^#=^ Bags, Surgeons^ Bandages, 
Pillow Tubing, Asbestos Fire 
Curtains, Jeans, Corduroys 
and Various Fancy Weaves. 



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DRAPER COMPANY 



HOPEDALE, MASS. 



40 SOUTH FORSYTH STREET 

^TLAXTA, Georgia 



A, Q. THURSTON &r SON 

R. W. THURSTON, Proprietor 









MANUFACTURERS OF 

Fluted Rolls, PPFSsers for Flyeps and 
(jenepal Machinery 

Specialties made of Reneckfng. Refluting, 

Filing and Honing of all kinds of Rolls 

Speeder flyers repaired and fitted with any style 

of presser 



Spindles Straightened, Restepped and Retopped 



Cor. Mulberry and Division Sts. 



Fall River, mass. 





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TELEPHONE 



£95No.Main§t. 



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FALL RIVER 



MASSACHUSETTS 



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1911 




PUBLICATION OF PERSONAL 

POINTS PERTAINING TO A 
CITY OF OPPORTUNITY 




"FALL RIVER is the embodiment of the sagacity, 
energy and industry of her own people, the out- 
growth of home industry and good management. No 
city has greater cause for satisfaction or stronger 
reasons for a just pride in the achievements of her 
own citizens, which, under the blessings of a benign 
Providence, have given her a foremost rank among 
Manufacturing Cities." :: :: :: :: 



COMPLIMENTS OF 







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Fall River Trade and Industry 



Association 



K. R. ACORXT^EV & fOMPANY 



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COVEL&OSBORN CO. '^^ 
flDill anb BuUbers' Supplies 

We make a specialty of Mill Supplies, and 
carry a large line of BOLTS, PACKINGS, 
CRAYONS, ROPE, VALVES, BASKETS, 
BELTING, OILERS, DUSTERS, CLOTH, 
etc, — In fact everything" required for mill use. 
We also manufacture COTTON BANDING 
inclnding Rim, Drum, Scroll, Spindle, 
Braided, and Coop Bauds. 

TROY BUILDING, 139 PLEASANT ST, 

FALL RIVER, MASS. 

Your ^oiver Problem 



The Power Problem is ever present with all man- 
ufacturers. The correct solution is of the utmost 
importance, and a system selected that will not 
only meet the present requirement economically, 
but also allow for further expansion without 
undue expense. 

ASK US ABOUT ELECTRIC POWER 



Fail Rtt>er Electric Light Company 



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; OFFICERS 

;,- Past Presidents — Hon. William S. Greene, Reginald A. Foiilds, 

Francis M. Hunter. 

President — John M. Young, Sr. 

First Vice President — E. Bridge, 

Second Vice President — F. McKnight. 

Recording Secretary — B. R. Acornlev. 

Financial Secretary — M. Rosen. 

Treasurer — Geo. E. Vezina. 



DIRECTORS 



Hon. William S. Greene, D. W. Riley, J. W. R. Beesley, 
David P. Keefe, Y. M. Hunter, and the officers. 



COMMITTEES 

MEMBERSHIP — Geo. E. Vezina, B R. Acokni.ev, E. Bridge, M. Rosen. 
LEGISLATIVE — Jo^- Turner, D. P. Keefe, I. Wii.letts. 
NEW ENTERPRISES— J- W. R. Beesley, E. Bridge, R. H. Clegg, D. W. Riley. 
WATERWAYS AND H A RBO RS— Congressman W. S. Greene, D. P. Keefe, W.Bouvier, 

A. Homer Skinner. 

RAILROAD, TRANSPORTATION AND ST ATISTICS— F- IM- Hunter, Dr. J. Westall, 

F. McKxHiHi. G. Andrews. 

CITY IMPROVEMENTS— D. W. Riley, E. Murihy, Dr. J. Westall, J. W. R. Beesley. 

AUDITING — ti. AndM'Ws, D. W. Riley. 








HIGHEST GRADE 



S^TEEL 



SPINNING 



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TWISTER 
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Lightest Running 



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Most Durable 

RINGS 

Ever Produced 



U. S. standard Traveler Cleaners, 
Patent Traveler Cups, 

Jencks' Traveler Cleaners and 
King Holders of all Einds 



MANUFACTURED BY 



WhitinsYillo Spinning* Ring Co. 

WHITINSVILLE, MASS. U. S. A. 




JOHN M. YOl N(r, Sr, 
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Unsurpassed in simplicity, durability and those 
other qualities that go to make a perfect automatic 
loom. 



Uses Cop or Bobbhi Filling Equally Well 

No Special Mill Supplies Needed 

No Extravaga)it Repair Bills 



The Stafford Company 

READVILLE, MASS. 



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TEXTILE OILS 



For Every Requirement 



CYLINDER, ENGINE, MACHINE 
LOOM AND SPINDLE OILS 



A Complete Stock for Immediate Deliveries 

At Warehouse 

160 THIRD STREET 

FALL RIVER, MASS. 

Bell Tel. 499 Auto Tel. 1125 



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DIRECTORS— 191 1 

FKANCIS >I. HUNTER J- '^^'' ^' BEKSLEY 

Hox. WILLIAM S. OREEIVE 
DAVID I^ KEEFE >^» ROSE>^ Fjx. SECiiETAKy 



"Ideal" Automatic Loom 




PLAIN GOODS LOOM 

The Stafford Company 

RKADVILLE, MASS. 



SOUTHERN AGENT, 



FRED H. WHITE. 



CHARLOTTE. N. C. 



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Mills equipped with these looms are making 
the widest range and the most perfect goods ever 
made on automatic looms. 

They effect a saving of fully 60% in weave. 
ing and still pay their weavers 50% more than 
on plain looms employing but one-third their num- 
ber. 

These looms make practically no waste and 
average over 90% production without overtime. 

They are the only looms which can use cop 
or bobbin filling interchangeably. 



The Stafford Company 



READVILLE, MASS. 



FRED H. A\ HITE, 

SOUTHEK^f AGENT, 

Charlotte, N. C. 






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HOX. THOMAS F. HIGGIXS 

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PROMPT 



PRIVATE 



PERFECT 



Fall River 
Automatic Telephone Co 



p. O. BOX 133 



215 Um STKEET, FALL RIVEK, MASS. 



THE AUToriATIC IS CONNECTED WITH NEW BEDFORD 

This company has been the means of very materially 
reducing- the telephone rates in Fall River. 

Give Us Your Patronage and Keep the Prices Down 
Public Pay Stations at conveniert places throughout the city 



Fall River Gas Works Co. 



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At the present low price of Gas, 
Cooking by a 

GAS RANGE 

is as cheap 
or cheaper than by coal. 



OFFICE 



62 NORTH MAIN STREET 



FALL RIVER, MASS, 



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SOUTH MAIN STREET AND CITY HALL 



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American Thread Company 



KERR MILLS 



FALL RIVER, MASS. 



ORGANIZED 1903 CAPACITY 60,000 PER DAY INCORPORATED 1906 

The Joseph Hoyle Bobhin Co. 

JOSEPH HOYLE, President and Mana'.;er 

MANUFACTURERS OF WARP & FILLING BOBBINS, SKEWERS, ETC. 

SLUBBERS, SPEEDERS, AND TWISTERS FOR 

COTTON AND WOOLEN MILLS. 

Our Specialty: Enamelled Bobbins 

75 Pord St., Woonsocket, R. L 



To THE Cotton Maxufacturer.s: 

Fall River is all right, and we appreciate the business we are receiving from your cit}' 
We are only '.5 minutes away, and are pleased to call on you and quote prices. A postal will 
bring' our representative the day following, a telephone the same day. We make a full line of 
all kinds of bobbins, and sell spools. 

THE JOSEPH HOYLE BOBBIN CO., 

An Independent Factory 75 Pond Street, Woonsocket R I 

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FALL RIVER, MASS. 



jj-all IRiver Bleacher^ Company 

BLEACHERS 
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OF ALL GRADES OF 

White Cotton Fabrics 

For the Manufacturing and Jobbing Trade 

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FALL RIVER, MASS. 



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FOR COTTON AND SILK WEAVING 

Also Shafting, Hangers, Pulleys, and Appurtenances for the 

Transmission of Power 



Lincoln Manufacturing Co. 

OFFICEj 41 NORTH MAIN STREET 



MILLS ON STEVENS STREET 



Capital, 



S700,000 



LEONTINE LINCOLN, President 

BENJAMIN J. READ, Treasurer 

CHARLES B. CHASE, Superintendent 

DIRECTORS 

LEONTINE LINCOLN ISRAEL BRAYTON 

FRANK J. HALE JOHN H. ESTES 

CHAUNCY H. SEARS GEORGE W. SLADE 

R. P. SNELLING J. T. LINCOLN 

BENJAMIN B. READ, 

63,000 Spindles 1,250 Looms 

JK SI, VIAINUFACTURE PLAIN AND FANCY COTTON GOODS ^ ^ 

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DAVOL STREET PLANT 



fIDassasoit ^anufacturino Company 

CONTRACTORS AND DEALERS IN 

COTTON WASTE OF ALL KINDS 

WENDELL E. TURNER. Treasurer 



Office: 156 Davol Street, 



Fall River, Mass. 




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A CITY OF OPPORTUNITY" 



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Nobody in this wide, wide world, in writing a letrer to some- 
body in our city, would think of using the usual, long description 
of location generally requisite to insure proper delivery. A letter 
from the uttermost parts of the earth, meagrely addressed to 
"Abe Smith, Fall River," for instance, is likely to reach its desti- 
nation if Abe be living anywhere in or near Fall River. Why? 
Because Fall River, as a manufacturing city and one of success- 
ful, progressive, business men, has a reputation as long and as 
broad as the wide, wide world, and evety thing co7iies right^ be- 
cause of that reputation for manufactures and success. 

A few decades ago one of America's noted editors advised 
young men to go west. Accordingly, thousands of persons impa- 
tient, and panting for success, followed this advice, migrated to 
various locations in the wild and woolly west, there to delve and 
strain, plant and pant, for the object of their aspirations, with 
varied degrees of success and failure. Not all however, did so. 
Some stayed at home and others, after their western experiences,, 
returned to the east and to Fall River, where they made success. 

There was also one young man, born in the west and tilled with 
the fire of patriotism, ambitious to sit in the councils of the na- 
tion, who, ignoring the advice of Horace Greeley, faced about 
and travelled east: 



Until he beheld, in the evening of the day, 
From the western shores of Mount Hope Bay 
Fall River; nestling 'mongst majestic hills 
'Midst forest trees, and rills, and mills, 
Clothed in irridescent beauty. 

Here he stopped, and dwelt, and found the goal of his ambitions. 
For years he has been Fall River's Congressman, and Fall River, 
to him, has meant success. 

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From the days of our childhood we have heard and read of the 
rock bound shores and stony fields of New England as contrasted 
with the rich, alluvial lands of the great and glorious west. But 
experience has taught that with numerous cities of enterprise in 
close proximity, it does not cost nine bushels of produce from 
these New^ England farms to get ten bushels to a market; that the 
net profit to the New England producer will average equal to that 
of the western farmer; and we do not know of a producer in 
south-eastern Massachusetts who is not fairly well to do and 
blessed with his measure of success. 

We have heard of cities that have sprung up in a night, full 
grown, progressive and successful; whose frame for enterprise were 
portrayed in such glowing colors as to thrill us with envy. We 
have read of cities, grown not quite so fast, but whose records for 
strenuousness were as luridly depicted. But, alas! in a few years, 
the nation's postman knew not where to find them. 

"A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; an hour may 
lay it in the dust." And so, the hand of Time is as needful as 
the hand of man, to build a city permanent, progressive, and suc- 
cessful, locate it on one of nature's chosen sites, — dedicated in ad- 
vance. 

Fall River is not of mushroom growth, neither is its reputation. 
Its progress and development have been so regular and certain, 
that comparison with the history of other cities compels its every 
citizen to feel proud, successful, and satisfied; for it is the em- 
bodiment of sagacity, energy, and industry, with the blessing of a 
benign Providence, located in one of nature's nooks, designed 
a city of greatness and grandeur. 

What city has so expanded from a settlement into a corpora- 
tion of 120,000 inhabitants with such regular and normal growth? 
What city in so short a time has caused the cabins and cottages 
of its settlers to give place to so many palaces of frame, brick, and 
granite structure? Where on the Atlantic coast has another village 
of store and blacksmith shop, grist mill and factory, given place to 
so many large and imposing corporations of industry so eminently 
successful? Where, have been opened so many miles of streets, or 
hewn through granite so many miles of sew^ers, or laid so many 
miles of piping, or built so many churches and school houses 
without assessments for betterments? Where have so many sons 
of settlers died in affluence, leaving no exact probate of the mag- 
nitude of their successes, — fearful, perhaps, that exposure would 

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excite the cupidity of strangers, inciting immigration in numbers 
impossible of assimilation? 

EARLY HISTORY. 

The first settlement of Fall River was in the regular course of 
expansion from the Plymouth Colohy in 1656, when a grant of 
land east of the Great Taunton River, six or seven miles in 
length and extending from Assonet Neck to Quequechan River, 
was made by the General court of Plymouth to a number of free- 
men. In 1680 the Governor made a second grant to eight per- 
sons, of an additional tract extending southward from the Que- 
quechan to Dartmouth and Seaconnet, and inland (eastward) four 
to six miles. 

Occupation attracted attention to these grants and the position 
of what is now Fall River, was early recognized as eminently ad- 
vantageous for manufacturing and commercial pursuits; but early 
conditions, troubles with Indians and other causes, long and ma- 
terially delayed development. It has since grown however, into 
commanding importance, and is now known as the greatest cotton 
cloth producing city of America, and home of the most skilled and 
law abiding operatives in the world. 

TAUNTON RIVER. 

The Taunton Great River, flowing from the north, expands in- 
to Mount Hope Bay. The Quequechan is the only outlet from a 
chain of lakes located inland about two miles (and about 140 feet 
above sea level) into the waters of Mount Hope Bay. The fall of 
this river was so beautiful that the Indians named it Quequechan, 
signifying falling waters, and hence our city's name. Fall River, 
through whose centre the Quequechan still flows. 

Fall River became incorporated a city in 1854, but during the 
transition stage from village to city (from 1803 to 1854) there was 
a very slow growth in numbers and a very gradual business de- 
velopment, due, no doubt, to the fact of its location upon two dif- 
ferent grants and eventually in two difi^erent states, the boundary 
lines of which were not determined with sufficient definitness and 
which in time became a question at issue between Massachusetts 
and Rhode Island. Thus situated. Fall River was subjected to 
two jurisdictions and sometimes to conflicting interests. It be- 
came known as the "Border City" because of these conditions. 

The breaking out of the great civil war in 1S61 and the final 

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COURT HOUSE, NORTH MAIN STREET 



adjustment of the boundary dispute between Massachusetts and 
Rhode Island in 1862, the influx of skilled operatives and the in- 
creasing wealth of "First Families" seemed to loosen the fet- 
ters that had bound the town, so that the city was enabled to grow 
more rapidly, and more in that proportion which its pre-eminent lo- 
cation for manufacturing purposes and its other natural advantages 
seemed to justify; and in the fifty-five years subsequent to in- 
corporation as a city, it has grown from 12,500 in population to 
120,000; from $8,939,000 in valuation to $86,562,734; from 8 
business corporations of small extent to 100 corporations or more; 
from $1,680,000 in bank deposits to over $20,000,000; while its 
capacity then confined to small industries, is ever increasing and 
apparently unlimited, its facilities for safe, easy and speedy connec- 
tion with all other parts of the world, its contiguity to New York and 
Boston, its educational advantages and climatic conditions are 
making it more fully known and more frequently inquired into for 
home purposes and for large industrial and commercial pursuits, 

LAKES AND WATER POWER. 

No other city on the Atlantic slope possesses such remarkable 
water power and spacious harbor advantage as Fall River. They 
in conjunction with the outlying chain of fresh water lakes, are 
prime factors in the industrial development of the city. 

These lakes cover an area of about 3,500 acres and drain about 
20,000 acres of surrounding country. They are supposed to be 
supplied chiefly from springs, although receiving the outflow from 
several minor sheets of water. The comparatively small drainage 
area, however, considered in connection with the great volume of 
water flowing to the bay, may be sufficient to justify the opinion of 
some that subterranean connection exists with another chain 
of lakes lying several miles northeasterly from this city. 

However this may be, the fact remains that Fall River possesses 
the finest lakes of pure, fresh water of any city in the Union; whose 
banks ne'er overflow in times of deluge, nor seemingly diminish in 
times of drought — the North Watuppa, upon whose west banks 
the city water works are built; and the South Watuppa, the fish- 
ing ground for followers of Isaac Walton, and whose west banks 
are sites for future factories. 

The flow of the Quequechan from these lakes to the bay is es- 
timated to be 1 2 1.5 cubic feet per second, or 9,000,000,000 gal- 
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tumbling to Neptune; — pure, sparkling water, innocent of deposit, 
incapable of corrosion, unequalled for textiles, and unexcelled for 
chemical or medical purposes. 

The advantages of the Quequechan as a mill stream were in- 
creased by the building of dams at its outlet from the lakes and 
along its banks. Over its waters great manufacturing plants have 
been erected, until this stream for much of its course is absolutely 
lost to view. This river for almost its entire length flows over a 
bed of granite, its course is confined between walls of granite; and 
the water-wheels of the older mills set in the bed of the stream 
without fear of injury or risk of loss. There is a uniform and con- 
stant supplv of water coming down from the lakes, yet an over- 
flow or a freshet has never been known. 

These old time water-wheels have long since given place to more 
modern machinery, even in many of the earliest constructed mills; 
yet they are retained in the bed of the Quequechan, for use in case 
of need. Our mills have always advanced with the progress of 
improvements and as new mills are erected, the most sanitary 
buildings are constructed and most improved machinery installed. 
As large quantities of water must always be necessary for manu- 
facturing purposes, such water as Hows unceasingly in volume and 
quality through the centre of Fall River, from the lakes above to 
the mills below, must ever be needful to perpetuate our city's 
present industries and advantageous in promoting new ones. 

We oft times have factors from England, France, Germany 
Belgium, and other foreign countries visit and inspect our cotton 
mills, who express surprise at the intelligence, skill, grace, and ap- 
pearance of our operatives as well as amazement at the grandeur 
of our granite mills, as contrasted with the conditions prevailing in 
their respective countries. 

MOUNT HOPE BAY. 

Not only is Fall River renowned for its manufactures and business 
success, but also for its splendid, spacious harbor advantages. 
At its feet lay Mount Hope Bay, a beautiful arm of Old Ocean, 
some ten miles long, irregular in shape, and varying in width from 
one to six miles, affording harbor facilities unsurpassed by any 
location along the Atlantic coast. 

With ten good miles for wharfage front upon this bay and ten 
miles more available upon both sides of Taunton River, the mag- 
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fully comprehended. Mount Hope Bay, which bathes the base of 
King Philip's ancient regal throne and washes the feet of Fall 
River, is deep enough to float the largest ships of commerce and 
"broad enough to shelter navies upon its unbroken expanse;" — 
landlocked, spacious and safe. At all times picturesque and 
beautiful, it is the joy of salt water sportsmen, the place of yachts- 
men, its shores the restful resort of thousands. 

There may be no place this side of heaven where, for sorrow, 
pain, and toil, eternal rest is given, yet, if worn and weary man, 
pleading for relief, can but look aslant the hills of Fall River; if 
bruised and broken mortal, fashioned in the image of Divinity, 
can but behold and comprehend the magic influence of Mount 
Hope Bay, he may turn in restful peace, from this mundane, scenic 
grandeur, and truly worship in the beauty of holiness. 

ADJACENT LOCALITIES. 

Five miles distant from Fall River, across Mount Hope Bay, 
rising abruptly from the water, is Mount Hope, known in history 
as the home of King Philip, ruler of the Six nations (tribes of 
Indians, implacable foes of our ancestors aud famous in American 
history for their wars against the colonists.) Less than five miles 
further distant from Mount Hope is the ancient town of Bristol, 
now most celebrated as the home of the Herreshoffs, builders of 
the famous marine racing machines and cup winners. 

Southward from Fall River is Tiverton, another picturesque 
place and one of popular resort, it also being visited by summer 
colonsits from all parts of the United States, and southward, 
eighteen miles from Fall River is Newport the world famous sum- 
mer resort of the fashionables of this country. 

Thirteen miles eastward from Fall River is New Bedford, once 
the greatest whaling port and probably at this date sending out as 
many whaling fleets as any other city. 

Still further east are found Marion, Mattapoiset, the Miles 
Standish Monument, and finally the grand old Plymouth Rock. 
Northward from Fall River only forty-nine miles distant is Boston; 
and New York City is one night's ride by boat, or 183 miles 
south. Travel in whatever direction one will from Fall River, he 
is continually passing from one place of interest to another. In- 
deed, "Where e'er we tread, 'tis haunted, holy ground," made so 
by the hand of nature, the history of Puritan ancestry, and the 



legends of Indian aborigines. 



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COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGES. 

The commercial advantages of Fall River, while natural and 
unsurpassed, remain comparatively undeveloped; manufacturing 
interests having first attracted the attention of the people, com- 
mercial development became of secondary and incidental consid- 
eration — rather a result indeed, of their manufacturing importance, 
and yet Fall River ranks well up as a port of entry in the United 
States. 

Possessing the best land locked harbor upon the Atlantic coast, 
with wharfage possibilities extending from Somerset Bridge to the 
Tiverton Fisheries, with depth and expanse of bay and river, it 
seems surprising that Fall River has not long since developed an 
international commercial relation of much larger volume than it 
yet possesses. 

Its manufacturers however, early acquired the habit of depend- 
ing upon the jobbing houses and agencies of New York City and 
the latter continues to be the point of export for the products of 
this city, to all parts of the world. 

As early as 1827 Col. Richmond Borden established a line of 
steamboats for service between Fall River, Providence and inter- 
vening points. This enterprise expanded into the Newport, Provi- 
dence and Fall River Steamboat Company, which continued to do 
a large and profitable freight and passenger traftic until after the 
introduction of modern electric express and cheap electric pas- 
senger service. 

The Dyer Transportation Company was later incorporated as a 
rival of the Newport, Providence and Fall River line. It has 
continued in business, and upon the withdrawal of the latter com- 
pany, succeeded, by contract, to much of its transportation. 

In 1847 Colonel Borden and other citizens of Fall River, organ- 
ized the Bay State Steamboat Company, to ply between Fall River 
and New York City. Although a success, from the start, it changed 
owners from time to time, until finally acquired by the New^ Eng- 
land Navigation Company, a holding corporation for the New 
York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company; and for 
years this magnificent steamboat service has been known as the 
famous "Fall River Line." 

In 1876 the Clyde Steamboat Company established a line of 
packets between the cities of Fall River and Philadelphia, princi- 
pally for freight transportation, which eventually became the 

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property of the "Winsor Line," that continues the freight traffic 
between Fall River, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Va., and 
Washington, D. C, with usually (not less than) three sailings a 
week. 

Beside these steamboat lines enumerated The Joy Steamboat 
Company of Providence, was started, in competition with the 
"Famous Fall River Line," for local and New York traffic, with 
wharf and offices at the foot of Central Street. The Enterprise 
Transportation Company was also organized by Worcester City 
interests, in 1905, as another rival line of the "Famous Fall River 
Line," for New^ York freight and passenger service, with wharfs 
and offices at the foot of Turner Street. But these two companies 
have since been absorbed by the New England Transportation 

Company. 

Beside these we have steamboat connection with Boston, New 
Brunswick, and Canadian ports, northward of us. and by other 



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lines, with Richmond, Savannah, New Orleans, Cuba, Panama, 
Porto Rico, South America, Europe, Asia, and other parts of 
the world. And yet with much available space for warehouses, 
wharves, and docks, obtainable and cheap (when compared with 
prices for similar locations in other commercial cities of the At- 
lantic coast) Fall River's adaptation for these enterprises seems 
hardly yet realized. 

The United States Government stands committed to closer com- 
mercial and political relations with Mexico, Central American and 
South American countries. This is the meaning of the "Monroe 
doctrine," and was the dream and ambition of James G. Blaine. 
There is no port on the Atlantic sea board whence a line of trade 
and shipping to and with those Southern and South American 
countries, can be so safely, cheaply, and expediously established 
as from Fall River. There is no sufficient reason whv subsidized 



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American vessels are not already carrying the great volume of 
American exports, that foreign vessels now carry, There is no 
sufficient reason why the sons and grandsons of hardy New Eng- 
land seaman (who traded, flying the stars and stripes, and 
won our wars for independence upon the high seas) should grow- 
up in idleness or forgetful of the trade and glory of their ancestors, 
for want of American bottoms in which to transport American 
manufactures. 

If Sears and Roebuck, and Montgomery Ward Companies can 
successfully maintain international money order houses in a city 
on the plains, if Chicago can successfully manufacture and ship 
reapers and other agricultural implements to Russia, South Ameri- 
ca, and the Orient, why cannot similar and larger enterprises be 
more successfully operated from such an advantageous location as 
Fall River, on the Atlantic coast? 

If we successfully manufacture textile goods for world wide 
transportation and have machine shops and foundries in Fall 
River, making and shipping American machinery to China, 
Japan, and other Eastern countries, why not an awakening to the 
great advantages of our harbor and location and a greater 
effort to\vards the development of these natural blessings? Why 
not a Fall River demand, a Massachusetts demand, a united 
New England demand, for the enactment of national legislation, 
leviving and encouraging New England ship-building industries 
and the establishment of New England lines of American ships in 
\vhich to carry our products and our flag to all nations of the 
world? 

There is proposed development of Fall River's advantageous 
water way, now dawning, but which to New England sea- 
men is by no means new. The importance of an inland canal 
from New York to Boston, avoiding the dangers of Point Judith 
and the rocky shores of Cape Cod, and as a shorter route as 
well as a great annual saving of life and property, seems beginning 
to be understood and is an early future possibility. 

This canal is projected along the southern borders of Rhode 
Island, west of Watch Hill, on Long Island Sound, and entering 
Narragansett Bay at the northern end of Conanicut Island, contin- 
ues via Mount Hope Bay and the Taunton River, on through the 
various towns to Hie Fore River and thence to Boston. Fall River 
would be the important southern entrance for this New York and 
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and commercial advantage that it is. These advantages which re- 
joice the Fall River citizens should arouse them to the acceleration 
of that development which is to make Fall River what it long has 
deserved to be — at least, ''the most important seaport in the 
State." 

TAUNTON RIVFR BRIDGES. 

From earliest times the Indians were accustomed to cross the 
Taunton River by a crude ferr)^, at a point where it narrows con- 
siderably, about one mile north of the confluence of the Queque- 
chan River and the Bay. Here, about 1869, a ferry was estab- 
lished by the Slade family which had settled in Somerset, on the 
opposite shore, and this location continues known to this day as 
Slade 's Ferry, This ferry was operated by use of horses until ad- 
vancement required the substitution of a steam ferry boat. This 
outlived its usefulness and gave place to Slade's Ferry 
Bridge, a combination structure which afforded a highway for 
teams and pedestrians on a line with the street, and a track for 
steam cars over head. This bridge was built at the combined ex- 
pense of the city, the county and the railroad company, and 
opened for public use in the year 1876. 

Long subsequent to the establishment of Slade's Ferry, a 
second ferry was provided to meet the increased demand for travel 
and traffic which was known as the Providence Ferry, with its 
Fall River slip, at w^hat is now known as the Linen Mill Wharf. 
These ferries continued in operation until the completion of Slade's 
Ferry Bridge, when Fall River had out grown the use of ferries. 
To facilitate their traffic, the railroad company also built a 
trestle bridge from Somerset village across the Taunton River, 
to the Fall River side. 

All these facilities became outgrown and a few years ago the 
High Court of Massachusetts, with the consent of the National 
War Department, authorized the construction of a new, substan- 
tial highway bridge. Accordingly there has been built and re- 
cently opened for general use, a bridge of architectural beauty, 
sixty feet in width, with piers of solid granite, and arches high 
enough to permit tugs and ordinary vessels to pass under, with 
safety, with an electrically controlled draw of sufficient width 
to prevent any obstruction to the use of the river as well as to 
provide for that great growth and use which the development of 
the next century will demand. 

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NEW BRIDGE, CROSSING TAUNTON RIA^ER 

This new bridge, handsome in design and soHd in construction, 
is located only a short distance above the old Slade's Ferry Bridge 
and has already developed into a park and promenade of pleasure 
where the tired citizen and his family, as also the stranger, 
may linger and breath the pure air wafted over the waters of bay 
and river, inhale the fragrance of the sea, and admire the beauties 
of the surrounding country. 

This bridge was constructed under the joint boards of the State 
Railroad Commission, the State Harbor and Land Commission 
and the County Commissioners of Bristol County at a cost limit- 
ed by act of the Legislature to one million of dollars, and within 
the time limit of the contract. 

It is an additional link connecting us with the outer world but it 
is only the beginning of those greater developments which fore- 
shadow what the future of Fall River is to be. A few miles up the 
Taunton river the railroad company has recently completed a new 
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the Fall River side, which demonstrates their faith in our future 
growth and the need of larger and more substantial, permanent 
and attractive improvements than any heretofore made by 
them to meet theirs, and Fall River's successful progress and de- 
veloping requirements. Thus there are three bridges across the 
Taunton River, connecting Fall River with the rest of the world, 
beside its many steamboat and railroad connections, yet these re- 
main inadequate for Fall River's necessities, as will be shown in 
connection with the service of 

THE NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTF(3RD 

RAILROAD. 

At or about the time of the incorporation of Fall River, railroad 
connection wdth Boston was considered an essential and probably 
profitable improvement, in keeping with Fall River development. 
Accordingly a Fall River road was constructed and equipped. 
Then Newport sought connection, and this extension developed 
into the Newport and Fall River Railroad, which expanded into the 
Old Colony Railroad Company, a corporation still existing to en- 
joy the profits of its leases, but whose road and equipment are 
leased to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad 
Company, which, since acquiring control of this road, has contri- 
buted very materially to the progress and development of Fall 
River and to the accommodation of its citizens and merchants, in 
its provision for expeditious travel and transportation. 

AH along its line from New York to Boston the New York, New 
Haven and Hartford Railroad Company has eliminated grade 
crossings, straightened and improved its road beds, laid new, steel 
rails and built new bridges. It has tunnelled through East Provi- 
dence, under College Hill, and constructed a heavy bridge across 
Seekonk River, to facilitate and develope to a still greater extent, 
the commercial relations of Fall River with the outside world. At 
the cost of several millions of dollars it has combined with this 
city to eliminate grade crossings here and to erect granite walls 
and iron bridge crossings for streets where grades were changed, 
for the protection of life and property. 

The New York,New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company how- 
ever contemplates large additional expenditures to advance its own 
interests, and to aid in the further improvement and commercial de- 
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this city by rail; it is already determined that the freight yards of 
this company in Fall River along the shores of the bay, must be 
connected with the freight yards in the eastern part of the city on 
the table lands 140 feet higher; accordingly without unnecessary 
delay this company will construct another new and modern com- 
bination bridge across the Taunton River, with both highway and 
railroad facilities far superior to those now in use, which will be 
heavily built and with ample tracts, to take care of developing traffic. 
The joint ownership of this location by the city, the county, and the 
Old Colony Railroad Company complicates conditions slightly, 
but, rapid development and public opinion demand this improve- 
ment; and public opinion is a most important factor of our time. 
The elimination of grade crossings being completed, our 
viaducts and other improvements in localities used for rail- 
road purposes seem finished and second to none in the State, this 
railroad company will also shortly expend several millions 
more in enlarging and improving its freight yards and 
water fronts, and in connecting them with the east side Watuppa 
yards, which will mean expensive tunnelling or extensive land 
condemnations and grading in order to complete these contemplat- 
ed improvements. The New York, New Haven and Hartford 
Railroad has three passenger stations on its principal or shore 
line in this city and one in the eastern section. 

These trains are almost continuously leaving one or another of 
these stations for Newport or Providence, New^ Bedford or Boston, 
New York or the West, and the distance is so rapidly and com- 
fortably covered that Fall River seems the centre from which all 
places radiate. 

THE "FALL RIVER LINE." 

The famous *'Fall River Line," originally organized as The 
Bay State Steamboat Company, to ply between Fall River and 
New York City, was a success from its inception and has grown in 
reputation and popularity as P'all River has grown. Its freight 
and passenger travel have always been particularly heavy and 
Fall River citizens have always manifested an especial pride and 
interest in its success. 

Conceived in a Fall River mind, started by Fall River capital, 
supported in infancy by Fall River trade and travel, it grew and^ 

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grew, and continues still to grow in popularity and success. It is 
one of the great P'all River successes that was allowed to pass out 
of the ownership and control of Fall River people. But its suc- 
cessive owners evidently understood catering to the public, for 
from modest beginnings this route has grown into international re- 
nown, and with it, improvement has kept pace with prosperity un- 
til the beauty of its steamers and the magnificence of their equip- 
ment have not only increased the natural pride of Fall River citi- 
zens, but command the admiration of the traveling public. 

It is a story of romantic interest, the upbuilding of this great 
transportation system. The elements that account for the growth 
of an enterprise of the magnitude of the New England Navigation 
Company have in them vastly more human interest than the fiction 
of a novelist. 

The scope of service performed by this organization includes 
the operation of a fleet of thirty passenger and freight steamers on 
Long Island Sound, over routes that aggregate 1,200 miles. Its 
passenger steamers have a licensed carrying capacity of 18,000 
passengers. 

Under the ownership and operation of the New England Nav- 
igation Company are the Fall River Line, between New York and 
Fall River, Mass.; the Providence Line, between New York and 
Providence, R. I.; the New Bedford Line, between New York and 
New Bedford, Mass.; the Norwich Line, between New York and 
New London, Conn.; the New Haven Freight Line, between New 
York and New Haven, Conn.; the Bridgeport Line, between New 
York and Bridgeport, Conn.; the New London and Block Island 
Line, between Norwich, New London and Watch Hill. R. I., and 
Block Island ; and the Boston Merchants' Line, a freight line be- 
tween New^ York and Boston by the outside route. 

The Fall River Line was established in 1847. "^^^^ service of 
the Fall River Line between Boston and New York was superior 
in every way and the Line achieved success from the very start. 

The establishment of a through water and rail connection be- 
tween these cities was made possible by the completion in 1845 ^^ 
a railroad from Fall River to Boston. It was opened for travel 
June 9, 1845. Colonel Borden and his brother, who had estab- 
lished steamboat service between Fall River and New York early 
that year with a small craft named the Eudora, were stockholders 
and directors in the new railroad. It was first known as the Fall 
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road was opened to traffic, its rights and franchises were trans- 
ferred to the Fall River Railroad Company. 

The terminus of the railroad was at South Braintree, where 
connection was made with the Old Colony Railroad to Boston. 
It is recorded that the number of passengers carried the tirst year 
was 59,382 and that the net earnings were $10,335. '^^^^ ^*^^^^ 
cost of building the railroad was $829,083.12. 

The Bay State Steamboat Company was the corporate title of 
the company which established the steamboat service between 
Fall River and New York. It was organized in 1846 with a cap- 
ital stock of $300,000. The fleet of the new line consisted of two 
steamboats, the Bay State and Massachusetts. Up to the time of 
the establishment of the Fall River Line there had been scarcely 
no improvement or outward change in appearance of the steam- 
boats that navigated the Sound. The Fall River Line steamers 
were the first to approach the modern style of steamer construc- 
tion. Both the Bay State and Massachusetts were much larger 
than any steamboat of that day. 

The Pilgrim was the first steamboat on Long Island Sound to 
be built of iron. She was constructed with a double hull, which 
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steamer of her clay was so large, so safe or so comfortable. The 
advent of the Pilgrim stimulated passenger traffic on the Fall 
River Line to a degree not anticipated. A year had scarcely 
passed when the actual need of another new boat was shown. 

It was the aim of the Fall River Line in those days, as now, to 
make each new boat faster, safer, more comfortable and more 
splendid. Then, as now, the newest achievements in marine 
architecture and construction were incorporated in each new ves- 
sel built for the Fall River Line. So it was that the Puritan, the 
next new vessel to join the fleet, was acclaimed as "The Queen of 
Long Island Sound," when she appeared on the Line in June, 
1889. The genius of George Peirce of the Fall River Line, who 
supervised every detail of her design and construction, found fit- 
ting expression in the Puritan. 

In 1890, a year after the advent of the Puritan, the Fall River 
Line fleet was increased by the addition of another steamer. She 
was named the Plymouth. She was a fitting prototype of the 
Puritan, possessing the speed and artistic beauty of her sister shjp. 
While undergoing repairs at Newport in 1906, she was burned at 
her dock. A new^ Plymouth, like the fabled Phoenix, arose from 
her ashes and was placed in service in August, 1907. 

The superb accommodations which these and other steamers 
of the Fall River Line afforded travelers, increased the passenger 
traffic on this route beyond all precedent and made imperative 
the need of another addition to the fleet. This need was met by 
the Priscilla, which w^as completed in 1894. She took her place 
on the Line in June of that year. 

Not so large as an ocean liner but quite as sumptuous, quite as 
elegant in point of decoration, the Priscilla received a noisy wel- 
come from the harbor craft as she steamed majestically from her 
New York pier on her first trip through the Sound. Faster and 
larger than her sister ship, the Puritan, she was hailed as the new 
"Queen of the Sound." 

The trip between New York amd Fall River on the Priscilla is 
one of pleasant luxury. The finish and decorations of the quarter 
deck give the keynote to the architectural and artistic treatment 
of the interior of the steamer. A dado three feet six inches in 
height from the deck faces the walls. Above the dado are panels 
in bas-relief, portraying Commerce, Machinery. Architecture, Elec- 
tricity, Music, Dancing, the Arts, Painting and Home Industry. 
In the last named panel, the figure is that of Priscilla at her spin- 

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ning wheel. The dado as well as the stanchions are finished in 
mahogany. 

The prominent feature of the grand saloon is the massive stair- 
case leading to tiie upper deck. The furniture and decorations of 
the grand saloon equal in splendor the furnishings of the Puritan. 
Not over-adorned, this apartment appeals to the cultivated eye. 
Comfort and restfulness are its dominant characteristics. 

In June, 1905, eleven years after the Priscilla was placed in 
service, the Kail River Line was increased bv the addition of an- 
other superb steamer. She was named the Providence. She is 
the fourth steamer of that name to navigate T^ong Island Sound. 
Although not as large as the I^riscilla, she is furnished just as 
elaborately. Her paddle boxes are enclosed so that her contour 
remains unbroken, which gives her the appearance of a propeller. 

The steamers retained and available for use to meet the re- 
quirements of travel between New York and Kail River, are the 
"Providence," the "Puritan," the "Plymouth," the "Priscilla" and 
the "Commonwealth," beside several freight boats. 

The steamer Commonwealth, which joined the tieet in 1908, is 
the flagship of the l^'all River Line, and is the largest, newest, 
most magnificent vessel plying in inland waters. She is like a 
floating hotel, having accommodations for two thousand passen- 
gers. Its grand saloon is a beautiful example of \'enitian-Cothic 
decoration so artistically pleasing as to evoke the admiration 
of its patrons. (In fact all the steamboats on the "1^'all River 
Tvine" are actually floating palaces.) It is a tw^o million dollar 
steamer, which price may furnish to the reader some idea of the 
magnificence of this line of steamers which is of I*'all Riv^er 
origin; and some idea of the immense, nightly travel by this 
line alone, when it is understood that to provision the Common- 
wealth for a single trip, requires a ton of roasts, steaks and chops, 
two hundred pounds of poultry, two hundred loaves of bread, 
three hundred pounds of butter, two hundred and forty dozen eggs, 
one hundred gallons of milk, three hundred pounds fresh fish, one 
hundred and fifty pounds of salt fish, one hundred pounds of 
coffee, and other varieties of food in like proj^ortion. 

All these "Kail River Line" steamers are equipped with search- 
lights, wareless telegraph and every up to date requirement and 
convenience. During their nightly voyage on Long Island Sound 
they are constantly in wireless "touch" with each other and in 
fact with the world, for the wireless service on these steamers has 



proven a great convenience to the patrons of the line as it en- 
ables them even while in transit, to communicate with their 
homes and their business. 

STREET CAR SERVICE. 

Fall River's first street car line was built in the year 1880. 
George F. Mellen, its projector, formed a corporation known as 
the Globe Street Railway Company, and its first tracks were laid 
in Main street and Pleasant street. 

Like the steamboat lines and the steam railroad service, this 
street car service was a success from its beginning. It developed 
and expanded, and stimulated competing lines, until the 
city became quite comfortably supplied with street car service. 
These competing lines were finally brought up and merged into 
the Globe Street Railway Company. 

This service was furnished by horse power until September 
1892, in which month electric power was substituted. 

In 1899 the Globe Street Railway became merged with or into 
the Old Colony Street Railway System, one of the largest electric 
systems in New England, operating in and through this city and 
Newport,New Bedford, Taunton, Providence, and Boston, thus giv- 
ing direct connection with all cities of the six New England States. 
Tickets for use within the city limits are sold six for a quarter 
and a general transfer system is maintained. Street sprinkling 
cars were introduced in 1902 and electric cars for carrying freight 
and baggage, moving hourly in all directions, in 1903, thus in- 
creasing still further. Fall River's facilities for transportation and 
contact with the world. 

MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION. 

Fall River as a municipality is divided into nine wards and 
nineteen precincts. It is governed by a Mayor and twenty-seven 
Aldermen. Its principal officials are. a city auditor, city clerk, cit} 
solicitor, and superintendent of streets. Its chief commissions 
are, Police Commission, Fire Commission, Reservoir Commission, 
and Park Commission. 

POLICE COMMISSION. 

A police department was naturally organized upon the incorpora- 
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mayor and aldermen until, upon the petition of many citizens the 
Legislature, by act approved in May, 1895, transferred all control 
of the city police and of liquor licenses, from the mayor and alder- 
men to a commission of three citizens appointed by the Governor, 
and who held their ofifices for a term of three years, and the repu- 
tation of this city for order and sobriety is second to no city in 
the country. 

FIRE COMMISSION. 

The Fire Department is a well organized and well paid depart- 
ment of permanent men, commanded by a Chief and two assist- 
ants, the men being assigned in groups to the several engine 
houses in different parts of the city, having in their charge six 
steam engines, four hook and ladder companies, live hose com- 
panies and four chemical engines, one auto truck for fiying 
squadron. These firemen have also a Veteran Firemans' Asso- 
ciation and sustain a fireman's mutual relief fund. 

Engine houses are numerous, modern in construction and 
equipment and usually are built in combination wdth police pre- 
cinct headquarters. The Fire Department organization is so 
thorough that destructive fires or total losses are almost unknown, 
no city of the size ever showing so little loss in insurance reports 
as Fall River. 

THE WATER BOARD. 

The Reservoir Commission or Water Board as it is now^ called 
was first elected about the year 187 1 and water w^orks were built 
in 1873, at a cost in round numbers, of about two millions of dol- 
lars, on 48 acres of land purchased at the head of Bedford street, 
upon the west shore of North Watuppa Lake. Tanks were erect- 
ed in various parts of the city to insure more even pressure and 
supply. The laying of pipes through our granite foundation com- 
menced with the building of the pumping station and has been an 
expensive work. 

Now we have three fine engines installed with a daily pumping 
capacity of twenty-four million gallons of water and considerably 
more than a hundred miles of piping laid to supply the needs of 
citizens. We have a daily consumption of about 5,300,000 gallons 
and 8,200 meters to measure the supply. The cost was great, but 
the people had to have it, and today this branch of the city ser- 
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The purity of Fall River drinking water is the pride and boast of 
the people, and as the cit}' has developed it has been deemed neces- 
sary to provide for its continued purity. Hence about 2800 acres 
of land around the borders of North Watuppa lake have been 
purchased within the past five years, at a cost of about $213,000, 
which will ultimately be converted into an immense park, within 
w^hose center will forever be found the placid lake of North Wa- 
tuppa, the city's pure water supply. 

PARK COMMISSION. 

The Park Commission is not of very ancient date, the first com- 
mission having been appointed by the Mayor in 1902. Fall River 
possesses three small parks in as many locations. The largest 
and most important is South Park of 108 acres, extending from 
South Main Street to Mount Hope Bay. This is a beautiful loca- 
tion with trees, shrubbery, small lakes and playgrounds for the 
children, as well as a field for sport for older persons. Next in 
importance is North Park extending from Highland Road to 
North Main Street, about thirty acres in extent, originally a part 
of the city farm and also laid out for beauty and the sports of 
the people. 

Ruggles Park lies between Pine and Locust Streets, comprises 
ten acres of land or less and has become an important place for 
young people's games of sport in summer and a skating park in 
winter. Beside these parks the commissioners control several 
attractive cemeteries; but as all of us will be drawn thither soon 
enough we leave the consideration of their beauties for the final 
visit. The commissioners have taken steps to provide several 
playgrounds in different parts of the city, and the Board of Alder- 
man has authorized a loan of $100,000 for the purchase of two play 
grounds in the eastern and south eastern locations. The Park 
Commissioners serve the city gratuitously and the efforts of no 
officials seem more highly appreciated by the citizens. 

PUBLIC AND OTHER BUILDINGS. 

No city displays so many costly and imposing buildings devot- 
ed exclusively to manufacture as does Fall River. Tne hundred 
or more mighty buildings of glass and granite, five stories high 
and immense, are but the workshop of the operative. The 
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amazed at their number and size, and their evident cost, just for 
manufacturing purposes. 

Where are more imposing buildings than the Post Office and 
the B. M. C. Durfee High School? The Library and State 
Armory? The Academy of Music, the Notre Dame, and St. 
Anne's churches, each costing a million or more? The Granite 
Block, and City Hall? The Congregational and Ascension 
Churches? The Mellen House, the Hudner Building, Dunn's 
Block and Campbell Building? The Lincoln school and other 
schools, St. Mary's Church, and Bishop's Home, the Globe News- 
paper Block, the Charlton Block, the Boys' Club, the Quequechan 
Club, the City Hospital and Old People's Home, St. Vincent's 
Orphanage, and so many others that space does not permit to 
name? Yet all of these are the outgrowth of Fall River's home 
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SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES. 

Fall River has a free public library of 70,000 volumes or more, 
housed in a new and handsome building erected for the purpose. 
It has also a Y. M. C. A. building and library and law library, 
furnished to the Bar Association, but open to the free use of citi- 
zens. Here, too, is located the most complete and progressive 
Boys' Club in the country, in a most beautiful building, the gift of 
M. C. D. Borden, Esq., who has also recently erected an additional 
building as a club and resort for men and boys, for games, or ex- 
ercise, for their advantage and improvement and to counteract 
the tendency to resorts of doubtful character. Fall River pos- 
sesses the B. M. C. Durfee High School, the gift of Mrs. Mary 
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use of those who aspire to become proficient, and even scientific 
in the knowledge of textiles and their manufacture. 

Its public school system is thoroughly progressive; it has fifty- 
four public school buildings in addition to those already enumerat- 
ed, most of which are expensive, modern and model specimens of 
school architecture. 

These buildings contain sixty-three grammar schools and about 
two hundred and forty of the intermediate and lower grades, where 
fourteen thousand children are educated under the direction of a 
corps of five hundred able teachers. The city appropriates over 
three hundred and seventy-five thousands of dollars annually for 
the benefit of its public schools, the books and other requirements 
of the pupils being furnished free of cost. Beside these 
public schools there are numerous parochial schools for the edu- 
cation of children of difi:erent nationalities in their respective 
faiths and native tongues. In fact. Fall River possesses educa- 
tional facilities second to those of no city in the land. 

CHURCHES. 

Fall River has seventy-three churches of all denominations^ 
beside the Y. M. C. A., the Christian Missions, Hebrew Svna- 
gogue and the Salvation Army. It possesses several prom- 
inent churches, principal among which are the Central Congrega- 
tional church, the St. Mary's Cathedral, St. Anne's and 
Notre Dame Churches, all of which are presided over by able 
and learned clergymen who minister to large congregations. 

The cost of some of these houses of worship figures into the 
millions, and beside these there are orphanages, infirmaries, hos- 
pitals and nurseries, all handsome structures and all liberally 
supported for the good of mankind. 

BANKS AND BANKING. 

P'ali River banks, like Fall River cotton mills, have usually had 
men of the staunchest rectitude in their control and management. 
And from the date of the charter of the first bank (which was 
probably the Fall River Institution of Savings, in 1828, now 
known as the Fall River Savings Bank) to the present date, there 
has been no bank failure, nor irregularity of bank officials. 

Prior to 1903, when state law inhibited the occupation of the 

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FALL RIVER NATIONAL BANK 



same place by Savings banks and National banks for business 
purposes, Fall River had seven National banks in good condition. 
This act of the Legislature resulted in one of our National banks 
selling its assets to the Metacomet National and retiring. Three 
others merged to form the present Massasoit-Pocasset National 
bank and the four savings banks continued to do business in their 
respective locations. 

Fall River therefore has four National banks to wit, the Fall 
River National, the First National, the Metacomet National, and 
the Massasoit-Pocasset National with a combined yearly clear- 
ing for 1908 of $50,797,024.71, and 1909 of 61,927,058.28. 
Showing again in 1909 over the previous year of $11,130,033.57. 

In the four Savings banks there are 50,000 depositors with de- 
posits approximating twenty millions of dollars. 

In addition to these there is the B. M. C. Durfee Safe Deposit 
and Trust Company, with a capital of $400,000, and deposits 
amounting to $1,000,000. 

Beside these regular banking institutions. Fall River has four 
Co-Operative banks which have done much to encourage the 
people to save money and to procure homes. 

The Troy Co-Operative bank was organized in June, 1880, and 
is now one of the strongest and oldest banks of the kind in this 
State. Its assets amount to about $854,433.43. Profits credited 
Oct. 31, 1909, of $114,804.54. It has a reserve fund and surplus 
of $36,370.67. 

The People's Co-Operative was organized in February, 1882. 
It has assets of about $300,000, profits approximating $45,000, 
and surplus of about $9,000. 

The Fall River Co-Operative Bank has assets of over $600,000, 
with a surplus and guaranty fund of $28,672, and a membership 
of over 1000, placing it well in the front ranks of the strongest 
Co-Operative Banks in the State. 

The Lafayette Co-Operative Bank was organized in April, 1894. 
Shares in the series matured to the value of $200, each in May, 
1906, while the monthly payments thereon amounted to $144. 
Dividends averaging nearly 5 per cent, having been credited. 

Thus Fall River banks and Co-Operative banks have been emi- 
nently successful although strictly conservative, and as safe and 
sound as any in the land. 

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TELEGRAPHS AND TELEPHONES. 

The Western Union and the Postal Telegraph Companies each 
have offices in Eall River. The Southern Massachusetts Tele- 
phone Company and the Fall River Automatic Telephone Com- 
pany also have offices in this city. These companies are all lib- 
erally patronized and successful. Recent municipal acts require 
their lines to be conducted under ground which relieves much of 
our city of many unsightly wires so often seen in other cities. 

CITY STATISTICS. 

Fall River has about 150 miles of public streets, 15 miles or 
more of which are paved with blocks of granite, 60 miles of which 
are sewered and with many miles of minor sewer connections. 
A hundred miles are laid with water pipes and connections. The 
city uses 789 electric lights, 167 gas lights and 311 kerosene lights 
(in suburban localities) for its nightly illumination. It has an 
electric fire alarm system extending to all mills and to all parts of 
the city. It has 20 wharves on its water front, the property of 
corporations, firms or individuals; 116 halls, blocks and large 
buildings; 10,000 dwellings or more, some of the handsomest in 
New England; 120,000 in population, 30,144 male citizens, 
16,052 male voters, 2260 female voters and employs over 34,000 
persons in its cotton mills. Its valuation is over eighty-one millions 
of dollars, its debt is about $3,937,096.97 and its sinking fund 
$2,240,564.03. while the cost of maintenance is about $1,500,000 
annually. 

In all Fall River's history as an important textile centre, it has 
experienced but two important strikes. One in the year 1879 
which lasted about four months. The second was the result of 
the colossal and merciless cotton speculations of Wall Street 
wolves during the year 1904, which brought hardship and misfor- 
tune to all communities dependent upon the textile industry. 

For six months the prohibitive price of cotton, due to specula- 
tion, caused eighty-five mills to stop running, and during that time 
nearly thirty-thousand skilled operatives were without an earning 
capacity. Yet during all those months property rights were re- 
spected; there were no riots, no bloodshed; there was less fire 
loss; there were fewer robberies and fewer arrests than ever 
known before within a decane and for the same given time. 
Records showed fewer failures or forclosures, and more prompt 

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payments of interest upon mortgages than ever known in shorter 
periods of depression. 

These facts have been quoted in journals and newspaper, from 
Maine to Texas, from New York to Cahfornia — ''No Pinkerton 
police, no martial law, no financial crash nor abnormal fore- 
closures." With some privatron and a minimum of pauperization, 
there is no other city where organized labor abounds, whose re- 
cord can surpass this. There is no other city in the Union whose 
firms and corporations are less hampered under strike conditions. 
This is, indeed, a record, of which Fall River is justly proud, for 
at no time in her history has the stabiUty of her population been 
more sorely tried, the greatness and intelligence of her working 
people so forcefully tested as during that six months' strike of 1904. 
This record is an illuminating page in the history of the city, "a 



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recommendation of our people to all employers of labor who may 
come into our midst; as well as a guarantee of peaceful safety to 
the home- seeker. 

City of successes! Grand is your location! Majestic aie your 
mills! The hum of your increasing shuttles is like more classic 
music to your sons; your myriad spindles are the evidence of 
your successes; your factory bells and foundry sirens unite with 
feathered songsters to welcome the dawn of each sunshiny day. 
Nature has greatly endowed you, history has contributed to your 
renown, the w^ealth and energy of man have made you great 
amongst textile cities, but your crowning glory is not yet. 

More ware-houses, docks, and wharves along your water front; 
your harbor more filled with ships of commerce, laden with trade 
and bound for every land; developing commerce and more diver- 
sified industries, can but crown you a star in the constellation of 
greatest cities, south of Mars. 

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Fall River Trade and Industry Association 



The city of Fall River, has been developed almost exclu- 
sively along the lines of textile manufacturers. It has, of course, 
other industries, but they as a rule are suplemental, or kindred 
industries; and what are not so are as yet unimportant, in com- 
parison with the number and value of mills engaged in the pro- 
duction of cotton goods in all their varieties of manufacture. 
The people of Fall River are justly proud of and are necessarily 
deeply interested in the growth and prosperity of these mills, for 
they are peculiarly their own achievement, the result of their 
home investments and natural development. Indeed, so intense- 
ly devoted have they been to this one enterprise, that they neg- 
lected to develop other enterprises for which their location is 
equally as well adapted, until the city's prosperity and growth 
have brought some citizens to the belief that it is possible for a 
community to attain such size and importance as to make it 
essential and for the best interests of all, to encourage the cul- 
tivation and development of a variety of industries in order to 
obviate a possible condition of complete dependence and help- 
lessness in case of prolonged depression in the one important 
industry. 

The Fall River Trade and Industry Association was the out- 
growth of such sentiment, and was organized in January, 1905, 
upon the broad principle of development, the encouragement of 
trade, to more fully advertise Fall River's natural advantages 
and to assist in procuring and establishing more diversified in- 
dustries. 

The Association is' composed of business men and property 
holders, having vested and substantial interest in the welfare of 

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the community; yet it is organized upon such broad principles 
that citizens of all classes can readily come together upon an 
equal footing to consider matters of importance to the whole. 

This is the basic principle of our State and national existence 
and it is hoped will prove advantageous in the greater develop- 
ment of our city. 

One of the important functions of the Fall River Trade and 
Industry Association is to educate citizens who have been re- 
liant only upon cotton mills, to invest with confidence in other 
enterprises. Many members of this i\ssociation are owners of 
stocks in these various mills, and their interests are deeply iden- 
tified with the progress and success of this principal industry. 
While not intending to sacrifice any of their interests, these 
members believe that investments in other enterprises and the 
encouragement of other industries cannot militate against the in- 
terests of their mills and must be of ultimate advantage to the city. 

The Fall River Trade and Industry Association is still in its 
infancy, but its inliuence has been fe!t; it has already accom- 
plished much during its existence yet much still remains to be 
done. It issues this, its souvenir, therefore^ with confident pre- 
dictions of continued, progressive prosperity for Fall River as a 
city and w^ith the blessings of such prosperity extended to every 
variety of business located herein, it invites others. 

For possessing every natural facility for the growth] of great 
and diversified industries and for commercial expansion, it wel- 
comes every variety of industry. 




RESIDEXCE ox PROSPECT STREET 

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PREAMBLE AND BY-LAWS. 



PREAMBLE. 



Whereas, the City of Fall River has attained one hundred and 
twenty thousand in population, we citizens believing- that it should 
become more progressive and metropolitan in character, and that 
diversified industries especially should be encouraged, do hereby 
organize this Association and pledge ourselves to advance the best 
interests of our City and promote its more rapid, moral, civic, and 
commercial development. 

NAME. 

This Association shall be known as "The Fall River Trade and 
Industry Association" and every citizen of Fall River may be 
eligible to membership by complying with the requirements of the 
Association. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

Application for membership (containing the full name, address 
and occupation of the applicant) may be made to any officer or 
member of the Association accompanied with the annual fee. 

All applications must be forwarded to the Executive Committee 
for approval and by said committee reported to the next regular 
meeting of the membership to be voted upon. 

MEETINGS. 

There shall be held a regular monthly meeting of the member- 
ship on the first Wednesday evening after the first Monday of each 
month at 8 o'clock for the transaction of any business that may 
properly come before it. 

Special meetings may be held at the call of the President, or of 

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the secretary, by direction of three members of the executive 
committee. 

QUORUM. 

Seven members of tlie Association shall constitute a quorum at 
any reg-ular or special meeting". 

OFFICERS. 

The officers shall be a President, First and Second Vice-President 
Secretary, Treasurer, Financial Secretary. There shall also be an 
Executive Committee composed of the officials above named and 
five other members. 

STANDING COMMITTEES. 

There shall be the following- committees appointed: Membership; 
Leg"islation; Nev^ Enterprises; Waterways and Harbor; Railroad, 
Transportation and Statistics; City Improvements and Taxation. 

ANNUAL ELECTIONS. 

The Officers of the Executive Committee shall be nominated an- 
nually by the membership at the regular meeting in March, and 
elected at the regular meeting- in April. 

DUTIES OF THE OFFICERS. 

It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all meetings of 
the Association and the Executive Committee: sign all documents 
of an official character pertaining- to the Association, appoint all 
committees unless otherwise ordered, exercise a general supervision' 
over the affairs of the Association and call special sessions of the 
Executive Committee when necessary. 

It shall be the duty of a Vice-President to preside at the meetings 
in the absence of the President. 

It shall be the duty of the Recording Secretary to answer all cor- 
respondence of the organization; record the proceedings of all 
meetings of the Association or of the Executive Committee ; keep a 
correct roll of all the members and their residences and to preserve 
the books, papers and documents belong-ing to the organization . 

It shall be the duty of the Financial Secretary to record the re-, 
ceipts of all fees and other moneys which may come into the organ- 
ization and to pay the same into the hands of the Treasurer, taking- 

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FRIENDS' CHURCH 



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his receipt for the same, and it is his dut}^ to render an annual re- 
port at the end of each 3'ear. 

The Treasurer shall be answerable for all moneys received by him 
and shall pay all warrants reg'ularly drawn on him sigmed by the 
President, countersig"ned by the Secretary. He shall deliver to his 
successor all moneys, vouchers and receipts that he may have be- 
long-ing" to the association. 

It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee to investigate all 
matters concerning* the welfare of the citiz'^ns in Fall River and at 
their meetings determine what matters shall be laid before the 
General Bodies. They shall also take action upon those matters 
upon which they shall have authority of the General Body. 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

Vacancies. 

The Executive Committee may temporarily fill vacancies in any 
ofBces, and officers so elected shall serve until others are elected by 
the membership. 

MEETINGS. 

There shall be held at least one regular meeting of the Executive 
Committee each month on the Monday evening prior to the regular 
meeting of the Association. Special meetings may be held at any 
time and place, upon call, five members constituting a quorum. 

All amendments or alterations to the By-Laws shall be submitted 
in writing at any regular meeting and acted upon at the next regu- 
lar meetings of the membership, but a two-thirds vote of tiie mem- 
bers present shall be necessary to adopt any change in By-Laws. 




CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 




CHURCH IN SWANSEA 



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SYKES PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH 



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MEMBERSHIP. 



Acornley, B. R., 16 Pleasant St. 
Allen, Frank G., 109 So. Main St. 
Abbe, A. J., 375 Rock St. 
Ashton, Herbert, 1199 Rodman St. 
Audet, A. L., 37 So. Main St. 
Archatnbault, E., 133 Forest St. 
Allwood, Arthur, 36 Cash St. 
Andrews, Georg"e, 16 Pleasant St. 
Bouvier, W., Pleasant St. & Eastern Ave. 
Brong'h, George W., 37 Lee St. 
Bridge, Thomas, 577 Mt. Hope Ave. 
Bridg-e, Ernest, Mt. Hope Ave. 
Butler, Wm. H., 234 Bedford St. 
Brocklehurst, W, H., 401 So. Main St. 
Buffington, Jas. N„ 44 Bedford St. 
Bakst, Michael, 254 So. Main St. 
Bernard, Isaac R., 536 Ferry St. 
Brady, J. C, So. Main St. 
Boyer, R. W., 53 Hall St. 

Beesley, J. W. R., 561 Birch St. 

Broderick, George, 518 Birch St. 

Bodreau, Frank O., Howland St. 

Bergeron, F., 181 Division St. 

Brayton, Israel, Granite Block 

Berard, Joseph, 304 I'leasant St. 

Conghlin, Hon. John T., 1007 Rock St. 

Coffey, Joseph T., So. Main St. 

Cole, Elmer E., Fourth St. 

Crapo, Robert C, 356 Maple St. 

Corrigan, D. F., 1484 So. Main St. 

Cantvvell, Edw., 314 So. Main St. 

Cadoret, Albert, 66 Hackell St. 

Com.stock, George F., 115 N. Seventh St. 



Printer 

Mercantile School 

Physician 

Insurance 

Clerk 

Real Estate 

Printer 

Druggist 

Blacksmith 

Comb Manufacturer 

Comb Manufacturer 

Physician 

Retired 

Insurance 

Clothing 

Merchant 

Drugg-ist 

Tearaer 

Contractor 

Harness 

Physician 

Lawyer 

Furniture 

Attorney-at-Law 

Cigars 

Salesman 

Teller 

Drug'g'ist 

Drug'gist 

Real Estate 

Stables 



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Carman, Wra. A., 103 Bay St. 
Cohen, Louis L,, (Cohen & Priest) 
Chavenson, A., 399 Alden St. 
Cahill, Richard, 363 E. Main St. 
Carley, M., 3GG9 So. Main St. 
Connell, C. W., Hig-hlands 
Crane, John, Pleasant St. 
Chase, F. M., 34 Bedford St. 
Cleg-g-, R. H., 311 Fifth St. 
Dubuque, Hon. H. A., il So. Main St, 
Dunn, Wm. J., 339 Central St. 
Dunn, Jno. W., 114 Hamlet St. 
Durfee, Wm., Central & Main Sts. 
Doherty, B. A., 733 Bedford St. 
I^elemarre, Rev. D. V., 3493 So. Main 
Destremps, L. G., .56 No. Main St. 
Destremps, L. E., 56 No. Main St. 
Dupre, Alfred, Howland St. 
Dionne, Victor, 93 Fenner St. 
Denehy, Timothy, 188 Kilburn St. 
Dundis, J. E. Main St. 
Davis, Jas. A., 87 Sixth St. 
Dandelin, N. N. S., Touisset 
Eutin, A., Middle St. 
Estes, Joseph, Grinnell St. 
Foulds, R. A., 88 Barnaby St. 
Feitelberg, Jacob 
Forman, K., Main St., Brockton 
Feitelberg-, M., Bay St, 
Fournier, E., 830 King- Philip St. 
Fisette, Jean, 137 Arch St. 
Freeman, Wm., Slade St. 
Fournier, Joseph, 1346 So. Main St. 
Garland, J. A., 35 North Main St. 
Gray, Alex. F., 456 June St. 
Greene, Hon. Wm. S., 40 Bedford St. 
Guiney, Edvv. J., 499 Rodman St. 
Griffin, J., 389 Central St. 
Golden, Jno., 35 Hudner Building- 
Galkin, Jacob, 384 Columbia St. 
Golbberg-, Ellis 



Insurance 
Mill Waste Dealers 



St. 



Physician 

INIerchant 

County Commissioner 

Loom, Fork & Spring*. Maker 

Attorney -at- Law 

Speculator 

Speculator 

Retired 

Grocer 

Architect 
Architect 



Teainer 

Clerk 

Sateen Manufacturer 

Physician 

Treasurer 

Clothing- Merchant 

Cloaks & Millinery 

Clothing- Merchant 

Grocer 

Hatter 



Advertising- 
Auditor 
Congressman 
Lumber Merchant 
Hayr t^t Grain Merchant 
Pres. U..T. W. 
Mouldings & Picture Frames 
Shirt Manufacturer 



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Gee, Fred'k A., 661 Hig-h St. 
Gorman, A. P., 182 Second St. 
Garnean, Dr. J. P. A., 1684 So. Main St 
Gag-non, Oscar D., 44 13edford St. 
Grandfield, Robert E.. Brayton Ave. 
Gig-uere, Rev. J. E. H., 889 Pine St. 
Gag-non, Donat, 2641 So. Main St. 
Gendrean, J. N., 304 Pleasant St. 
Hudner, M. T., 150 So. Main St. 
Hood, A. H., 29 Bedford St. 
Hunter, F. M., 361 So. Main St. 
Halfenlein, B., 262 E. Main St. 
Heatley, David, 371 Hanover St. 
Haffenreffer, R. F., 866 Davol St. 
Hart, A. T., 108 Second St. 
Hart, \Vm. J., Battinton St. 
Hebert. O. .7., 1.522 So. Main St. 
Holmes, H. G.., 1381 So. Main St. 
Healy, Mr.s. Lizzie, 977 So. Main St. 
Hodsrkinson, Miss Hatinali. 1351 So. Main St 
Hig'g'ins, Patrick J., 1777 So. Main St. 
Ishervvood, Jno., 2175 So. Main St. 
Jackson, John P., 341 Washington St. 
Keefe, David P., 105 Locust St. 
Kelly, M., 255 Third St. 
Kapstein, S., 227 Whipple >^t. 
Kenney, James, 740 Dwelly St. 
Kennedy, T. W., 295 Columbia St. 
Kay, James tL, 2064 So. Main St. 
Deeming-, A. H., 366 Bank St. 
Lewis, Thomas, 313 Durfee St. 
Lake, Alfred, 74 Hunter St. 
Lincoln, A. N., 29 Bedford St. 
Letournean, A. S., 105 Pleasant St. 
LaPlante, Isaie, 586 Mt. Hope Ave. 
LaMontagme, Achilles F , 47 Benjamin St. 
Lynch, Jno. IL, 1(')45 So. Main St. 
Lavault, Roch, Cor. State & So. Main Sts. 
Lanoie, Dr. J. E., 31 South St. 
Lamontagne, Amedee, 47 Benjamin St. 
Leclaire, Chas., 1246 So. Main St. 



Investor 

Paint Store 

Physician 

Insurance 

Custom House 

Grocer 

Furniture 

Supply House 

Attorney-at Law 

Real Estate it Insurance 

Clothing House 

Real Estate 

Treas. Old Colony Brewery 

Furniture House 

Salesman 

Jeweler 

(Sunderland >X: Son) 



Grocer 

Pliysician 

Agent 

Physician 

Clerk 

Grocer 

Maeliinist 

Carpenter it Contractor 

Cotton W.iste 

Real Estate 

Attorney-at Law 

Druggist 

Hay & Grain Dealer 

Agent 

Druggist 

Pliysician 

Baker 

Mason & Contractor 



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CITY HOSPITAL 




HOME I OR THE AGED 



Leviss, Chas., ]87 Washing-too St. 

Maloney, Thomas E , 593 No. Main St. 

Markelevich, M., 503 Ferry St. 

McFarland, R. F., 409 So. Main St. 

Mclsaac, J. D. , 776 Plymouth Ave. 

MacKeDzie, JudsoQ, (Mackenzie & Winslow) 

Murphy, E. F., 694 So. Main St. 

Mills, Asa A., 175 So. Main St. (Dry Goods) 

McDermott, P. F., 340 So. Main St. 

Mussley, Rev. J. Henry, 967 Stafford Road 

McKnight, Frank, E. Main St. 

MacKnight, R. B., 406 June St. 

Mercier, Dr. J. E., 1648 So. Main St. 

Metras, A. P., 395 So. Main St. 

Mills, J. O., 1765 So. Main St. 

Murphy, C. C. Jr., 1474 So. Main St. 

McLoughlin, T. J., 741 Dwelly St. 

Miller, D. C, 3339 So. Main St. 

Moore, Fred, 443 Bay St. 

Normand, Dr. J. N., 1553 So. Main St. 

Nadeau, Ovide A., 138 Last St. 

O'Rourke, M., 17 Borden St. 

O'Connor, Dr. J. E., South Main St. 

O'Neil, J. H., 33 Second St. 

Porter, George R., 25 North Main St. 

Prevost, Rev. J. A., 539 Eastern Ave. 

Pritchard, A. J. W., 130 So. Main St. 

Reed, L. N., 101 No. Seventh St. 

Rogers, W. S., 109 So. Main St. 

Rosen, Morris, 363 Bedford St. 

Rosen, Morris I., 363 Bedford St., 

Reag'an, Wm. J. 

Roy, [\ J., 

Rodg-ers, Chas., 16 Pleasant St. 

Riley, D. W., 335 President Ave. 

Riley, Frank, Osborn St. 

Radovsky, D. R., 533 William St. 

Radovsky, Samuel, Plymouth Ave. 

Roy, Jos. C, 490 Eastern Ave. 

Sullivan, D. F., 363 Third St. 

Smith, D. R., Second St., 



Grocer 

Veterinary Surgeon 

Clothier 

Baker 

Carpenter 

Hay & Grain 

Insurance 

Mc Whirr Co. 

Undertaker 

Laundry 

Insurance 

Phj'sician 

Grocer 

Merchant 

Merchant 

Tea & Coffee 

Painter & Paper 

Ex-Representative 

Physician 

Baker 

Manag'er 

Physician 

Hotel 

Advertising' 

Real Estate & Collector 

Livery Stable 

Mercantile School 

Leather & Shoe Findings 

Leather lV Shoe Findings 

Postal Telegraph Co. 

Tailor 

Real Estate 

Merchant 

Attorney 

Nat. Grocery 

Merchant 

With Allen, Slade & Co. 

Drug'gist 



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Sullivan, M. F., 534 Osboru St. 
Stone, Samuel, So. Main St. 
Sinclair, James, High St. 
Shogan, lienjamin, 184 Pleasant St. 
Stanton, John, 298 Third St. 
Silvia, M. J., 35 Lawton St. 
Simmons, Wm. H., Melville St. 
Sears, George, 231 So. Main St. 
Sokoll, E. J., 32 No. Main St. 
Staincliffe, George, 855 Broadway 
Sawyer, C. S., 1800 So. Main St. 
St. Denis, Ovila, 385 E. Main St. 
Schwartz, Samuel, 1668 So. Main St. 
Smith, David, 625 Almond St. 
Shea, J. L., So. Main St. 
Soferenko, N , 192 So. Main St. 
Skinner, A. Homer, 78 Sixth St. 
Sunderland, James, (Sunderland & Son 
Sunderland, George, 1381 So. Main St. 
Skiff, B. A. 

Sullivan, E. E., 79 Cambridge St. 
Soforenko, Louis, So. Main St. 
Sanguinet, Miss J., Park St. * 

Trainor, J. B., 1521 So. Main St. 
Tompkins, Samuel, 16 Court Sq. 
Thompson, Edward T., 55 French St. 
Townley, Peter, 813 Broadway 
Thorber, Mrs. Margaret, 111 Cambridge 
Turner, Joseph, Wilson Road 
Theberge, Emil, 304 Pleasant St. 
Vezina, Geo. E., 698 So, Main St. 
Westall, John, 955 So. Main St. 
Williams, F. P, 

Welch, Martin J.. 58 Tuttle St., 
Wood, Elmer E., Granite Block 
Wood, I. U., 1414 So. Main St. 
Wingard, Max, 180 So. Main St. 
Walker, W., 2 Main St. (No. Tiverton) 
WiUetts, Isaac, No. Main St. 
Whitworth, Wm. S., 297 Osborn St. 
Young, John M., 24 Bedford St. 



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Teamer 

Mercliant 

Bookkeeper 

• Watchmaker 

Retired 

Insurance 

Shoe Findings 

Dentist 

Confectionery 

Grocer 

Hardware 

Painter 

Shoe Store 

Machinist 

Real Estate 

Wholesale Woolen House 

Lumber Merchant 

Furniture 

Furniture Dealer 

Baker 

Supt. Fraprie- Douglas Co. 

Clerk 

Physician 



St. 



Dry Goods 
Merchant 

Senator 

Furniture 

Grocer 

Physician 

Grocer 

Merchant 

Lawyer 

Druggist 

Merchant Tailor 

Dry Goods 

Representative 

Clerk 

Coal Merchant 



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Experience is a Wise Teacher 
and the Best One 



Some of the best experience there is, is 
the experience of others. When we were 
twenty-one we couldn't see it that way. 

The Turbo Humidifier 

(The Humidifier with the Guarantee) 

is the result of experience and we are pass- 
ing it along. The inventor of the Turbo 
had had experience with every humidifier 
then existing. With no knocks intended 
— allow me to say that that was why he 
went to work on the Turbo. 

And there you have it — experience; 
evolution. Shall we call and expound, or 
will vou see the catalogue first ? 



THE G. M. PARKS COMPANY 

FITCHBURG, MASS. 

Sonthei-n Office: No. 1 Trust Bldg-., Charlotte, N. C. 
V. S. COTTRELL, Maiias?er 



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GENERATING STATION, FALL RIVER ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. 



IWassasoit-Poeasset flational Bank 

FALL RIVER, MASS. 

CAPITAL, S650,000 - ■ SURPLDS, $3?5,00D 

LETTERS OF CREDIT 

In sums to suit the requiremeDts of travelers, available 
throug'hout the world. 

SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES 

In Burg'lar and Fire Proof Vaults with seperate room& 
insuring" privacy. 

We offer exceptional facilities for handling- any banking- 
business and 
INVITE YOUR ACCOUNT 

CHAS. M. SHOVE, Pres. 
THOS. D. COVEL, Vice Pres 
E. W. BORDEN, Cashier. 

A. S. PHILLIPS, Pres. JOHN R. HILTON, Treas, 

MICHAEL McNALLY, Vice Pres. ERNEST HILTON, Mgr. 

Jffeehanies poandpy & JVIaehine Go. 

IRON FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS 

Brasst Bronze and Aluminum Castings 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

MARINE GASOLINE ENGINES 

Pattern Making Automobile work a specialty 

Repairing of all kinds Hangers, Pulleys anH Couplings 

FALL RIVER, MASS. 

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in Favor of Canal Project 



FALL RIVER MEN APPEAR BEFORE COMMITTEE 
ON HARBORS AND PUBLIC LANDS. 



Fall River Trade and Industry Association take the In= 

iative, and the Merchants Association and 

other citizens endorse the movement. 



"Wake up Fall River" was the slogan of a regular meeting of 
the Fall River Trade and Industry Association, Feb. 12, when ar- 
rangements were made for doing the best that can be done to have 
the bill for the Fall River and Fore River canal favorably consid- 
ered. Members of the association have conferred at various times 
with Congressman Greene, who is working hard for the bill, but 
like others as energetic complained that people in general about 
the city were showing a lack of interest. The Trade and Indus- 
try Association received notice that the Harbor and Land Commis- 
sion would give a hearing on the matter at the State House, Friday, 
Feb. i8th, at 10.30 a. m. Asa result of complaint that people 
seemed afflicted with apathy in the matter, the association consid- 
ered the matter at leng^th and decided to enlist the services of 
Mayor Higgins, Senator Turner, the representatives, business men 
and all others who can do something effective to promote a bill 
that will be of great benefit to the city. 

The members of the committees are as follows: Waterways and 
harbor. Congressman Greene, John M. Young, William H. Sim- 
mons, David P. Keefe and W. Bouvier; Railroads, Transportation 
and Statistics, Dr. John Westall, Francis M. Hunter. J. W. R. 
Beesley and F. McKnight. 

Fall River men demonstrated to the legislative committee 



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on harbors and public lands Feb. i8th the worth of endorsing 
the work the federal government seems to be willing to undertake, 
of building a canal from Fall River to Boston as a part of the 
great inland waterway which is to reach the whole length of the 
Atlantic coast; The Fall River delegation was instrumental in 
giving weight to the project. 

Mr. A. H. Skinner said, "Fall River was the third largest city in 
the State, with 120,000 people and $92,000,000 of valuation. The 
association which has endorsed this project, and which he appears 
for, represents $51,000,000 of that valuation. One argument in 
favor of this canal is that of safety of shipping in the storms of 
winter and the fogs of summer. A second reason is the time to be 
saved in avoiding rounding the Cape. 

Taking up the first argument, Mr. Skinner referred to the dif- 
ferent calamities that have happened on the Cape this winter. In 
the last 10 years there have been 1076 sailors lost on the coast 
from New York to Boston, and of these 540 perished on the shores 
of the Cape. This means 30 lives lost every year. Somebody 
is certainly to blame for allowing these conditions to continue, 
and on this argument of humanity alone the canal should be built. 

Then there was the argument of time saved. From Point 
Judith to Boston, going round the Cape, was 188 miles, which 
through the proposed canal it would only be 98 miles. It was not 
so much the time saved in going this extra distance as it is the 
waiting time that would be avoided. Vessels frequently have to 
lay off in sheltered places along this route, waiting for pleasant 
weather so they can continue, and the time wasted this way, if 
sumed up, would be something appalling. There is more com- 
merce passing Point Judith than any other place in the world, 
with possibly two exceptions — the canal connecting two of the 
great lakes and the Suez canal. 

Taking up the subject of freight rates, he said the saving in 
charges would be very great. Water freight rates are from one- 
seventh to one-eighth those of railroad rates. For example, rail 
rates from New York to Fall River are $5 a ton and by water 
they are 40 cents. From Norfolk rail rates are $4.40 per ton and 
by water 60 cents. From Jacksonville, Florida, the railroads col- 
lect $7.50 per ton and the water rate is $1.25. It would take four 
locomotives and 375 cars to haul the amount of coal that one tug 
can bring by means of a tow of barges. Boston alone uses 
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and cents it means $900,000 a year. 

Fall River, by this canal, would get into communication with 
other parts of the country. Steam canal boats would be going 
back and forth and the steamers from the South to Boston would 
go through the canal and make Fall River a port of call. 

The federal government spent $675,000,000 last year and 60 
cents on every dollar went for war purposes, and $51,500,000 w^as 
expended for harbor improvements, and of this latter sum Massa- 
chusetts only received $600,000." 

Ex-Mayor John W. Coughlin said, "The people of Fall River 
are deeply interested in this project. The State should take up 
and assist in this investigation and demonstrate its practicability. 
Aside from the toll of death that is being annually collected there 
is another thing, that of the business interests to be considered. 
If the United States is willing to go into this project it is up to the 
citizens to see that Massachusetts does her full part and endeavor 
to develop the business interests all along the route of the pro- 
posed canal. We know already that such an undertaking will 
have the endorsement of the governor of this commonwealth. It 
may be years and years before the bells will ring again to announce 
that such another golden opportunity is knocking at the door of 
the State. There is not a State iii the whole Union that can re- 
ceive so much benefit from an inland waterway that Massachusetts 
can. 

"We in Fall River want to build up our city," he said, "we 
want to see our merchants prosper, our freight rates lowered, and 
we want to be connected up with Boston. We want to see great 
industries all along the route of this canal, and the smoke from 
their chimneys ascending to high heaven, testifying to all the 
world that our people are prosperous and happy. 

It has always been claimed that the cities located on the coast 
or rivers were the most prosperous, and in Europe that argument 
is proven. Here, however, we seem to have allowed the inland 
cities to get an advantage. We have here the opportunity to put 
an end to the greed of commerce, which causes the sending out 
of men in coffin ships to end their days, and Massachusetts should 
stand in the vanguard, and it is up to you, gentlemen of the com- 
mittee, to take the first step to bring about this result." 

Those present at the hearing were Ex-Mayor John W. Coughlin, 
City Solicitor Hanify, A. Homer Skinner, County Commissioner 

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■Chace, Representatives Willetts, Parks, Harrington, Gifford and 
Booth, Dr. R. Thompson, Alderman C. A. MacDonald, Harry P. 
Brown, Jas. N. Buffinton, Warren Barker, representing Merchants 
Association; F. M. Hunter and B. R. Acornley, representing the 
Fall River Trade and Industry Association. Senator J. Turner, 
Representatives D. P. Keefe and F. Mulveny were absent on com- 
mittee work, but endorsed the project. 

As a result of the above hearing the following resolution was 
adopted by the Harbors and Public Lands committees and read 
in the senate: 

Harbors and Public Lands — A resolve on the recommendation 
of Governor Foss that the "governor, with the consent of the coun- 
cil, shall appoint a commission of seven persons within 30 days 
after the passage of this act, one of whom he shall designate as 
■chairman, to consider how best the commonwealth may cooperate 
with the federal government in the construction of a ship canal 
free and open to the commerce of the world, and without tolls or 
charge for the passage of freight thereon across the state, as now 
being surveyed by engineers of the U. S. war department under 
the river and harbor act of 1909 — the same being the intercostal 
waterway between Boston and the Rio Grande, Texas, in harmony 
with the plans advocated by the Atlantic Deep Waterway Associa- 
tion. 

"To consider how best the Commonweatlh may cooperate with 
other states, more especially Rhode Island, in the development of 
these inland waterways. 

"To consider the value of such a canal to the State and its in- 
terests in the development of institutions, the reduction of the cost 
of handling raw material and manufactured products or otherwise, 
and the benefit to transportation generally along the Atlantic coast. 

"The commissioners shall serve without pay and shall report to 
the general court their findings on or before May i, 1911." 



The committee on traffic for the proposed intracoastal canal be- 
tween New York and Delaware Bays, submitted its report to 
J. Hampton Moore, president of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways 
Association on March 14th. The committee states that on a 
•conservative estimate at least 5,200,000 tons of traffic would be 
shipped through the proposed canal during the early years of its 
operation. This will make a direct communication with Fall River 

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by canal, thus connecting Fall River with Boston, New York and 
Philadelphia with an inland waterway. 

The report advocates a sea-level canal, with dimensions as great 
or greater than those of the Erie and Champlain canals. The 
army engineers estimate that the cost of a sea-level canal between 
New York and Philadelphia, with a base width of 125 feet and a 
depth of 18 feet, will be $35,250,000. This sum is estimated as 
less than the value of the property lost along the Atlantic sea- 
board by shipwrecks in the last ten years, which is stated to have 
been about $38,000,000. 




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I believe in Fall River, where I live; her people, whom I know, 
and their interests; her natural beauty, which I see, and her in- 
dustrial advantages. 

I believe in spending my money in Fall River, where I make it, 
through my fellow-citizens, for made-in-Fall River goods. 

I believe that one good word for Fall River is two for my own 
business. 

I believe in keeping my business promises and all my promises 
and in "setting the pace" in my line of business endeavor. 

I believe in investing in and patronizing home industries, today 
and every day and the day after. 

J believe that Fall River can be made a more beautiful city, a 
CLEANER and a greener city, with better and sweeter homes for 
the multitude, with more of God's-out-of-doors, more sunlight, more 
of the ocean tide for us all and more of the life abundant, and I 
CAN help to hasten that day. 

I believe in the strength and power of the city's manhood, 
and in the glory of her womanhood, and in the future of 
her boys and girls, and in the opportunities of our citizenship. 

I believe in the young men and all men of the city, their faith 
and energy and initiative, the inspiration of their citizenship as 
the foundation stones of civic betterment and civic growth. 

I believe that every citizen is in duty bound to some service [in 
the interest of his home city and I believe in hearing the -'call 
to service" if within my power. 

I believe in speaking well of all public-spirited men and in be- 
ing one myself. 

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I believe in commending and not condemning; in boosting and 
not knocking; in helping, not hindering; in Uplifting, not pull- 
ing down. 

J have faith in my home city; I am optimistic, not pessimistic; 
enthusiastic, not indifferent; and I believe in advertising my 
faith, 

J believe in letting the world know what a good place Fall 
River is to live in, to grow up in, to make money in and to talk 
about and work for. 

J believe in the destiny of my city; as A City of Opportunities, 

its pre-eminence as a city and as a port, and its contribution to 

the welfare of the nation and its message as a city of the Republic. 

J believe I can do something every day to help Fall River for- 
ward toward a Bigger, Better, Busier and more Beautiful burg, 
and I believe I can influence a hundred others to help in the same 
way. 




TOWN HALL, SWANSEA 



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"WELCOME TO QUEQUETEANT." 

(FALL RIVER.) 



The City of Granite as Solid as the Pyramids. 

The city with a wealth of opportunities for health, happiness 
and prosperity. 

Quality stores, up-to-date merchants, and bargains for eco- 
nomical buyers. 

Unrivalled manufacturing advantages, and extensive transpor- 
tation facilities. 

Unlimited water power, beautiful hills for beautiful homes^ 
crystal lakes, refreshing to the thirsty, enjoyable to the pleasure 
seeker. 

A water-front, bay and harbor suitable for yachts or ocean- 
going steamers. 

Possessing the best land locked harbor upon the Atlantic coast, 

A birds-eye view of beautiful and historic landscape. 

Superb educational institutions for the youth. 

A vast area of ideal home and manufacturing sites. 

Sound banks and a comfortable climate all the year around. 

The city that adjoins the world's greatest summer resorts ; 
links Massachusetts and Rhode Island ; connects Massachusetts 
with New York, the South and the West. 

The home of the famous "Fall River Line." 

The beauty of its steamers and the magnificence of their 
equipment command the admiration of the traveling public. 

The home, hunting and fishing grounds of famous American 
Indians. 

The largest cotton manufacturing center in America. 

The home of the most skilled and law abiding operatives in the 
world. 

City of successes ! Grand is your location ! Majestic are 
your mills ! 

Nature has greatly endowed you ! History has contributed to- 
your renown ! 

The energy of man has made you great amongst textile cities I 

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FALL RT^^ER 



Leads America inj[Manufacture of CottonJ^Cloth, 

Largest city in Southern Massachusetts, with population of 
120,000. 

One hundred and four cotton mills, built of brick and granite, 
containing approximately 4,000,000 spindles and employing 
37,000 operatives, weaving nearly 20 miles of cotton cloth a day, 
including fine and coarse goods and ginghams, besides spinning- 
yarn and thread. An investment exceeding $50,000,000, distrib- 
uting $275,000 weekly in wages. 

Two calico print works, having 4] printing machines, with 
capacity of 6,000,000 yards per week. 

Large hat, piano and shoe factories and many narrow fabric 
industries. 

Eastern terminal of Fall River Line, world renowned for equip 
ment, spaciousness and beauty of decoration and construction. 

Port of call for Merchants & Miners Line, with direct communi- 
cation with Philadelphia and Southern points. 

On Old Colony division of New York, New Haven & Hartford 
railroad, 50 miles from Boston. 

Unsurpassed harbor, 18 miles inland from Atlantic ocean. 
Natural market for prosperous agricultural district. 

Up-to-date fire department, equipped with motor and horse- 
drawn apparatus, manned by permanent firemen. 

Sixteen miles of paved streets, 144 miles of accepted streets, 
850 electric street lights, 650 other street light. 

Adequate school system, with English, classical and manual 
training High school ; seat of Bradford Durfee Textile SchooL 
First free text books in America. 

Churches of all denominations, Y. M. C. A , line Public Library, 
clubs for men, boys, women and working girls. 

Beautiful surroundings between two bodies of water, exception- 
ally healthy community, with climate unsurpassed. 

Excellent location for manufacturing enterprises, with abundance 
of help, old and young. 

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THE LOCATION OF AN INDUSTRY. 



It has been well said: "A successful industry is like the prog- 
ress of a great City — it is never finished." It is always extending 
its buildings and adding more equipment, increasing the output 
and is of great benefit to the community in which it is located. 

It may have its beginning from a company recently organized 
to promote some staple article of manufacture wherein there is a 
good field for its product, or it may be an old fashioned firm of 
many years standing which from a modest beginning has grow^n to 
such large proportions such as the big industries are known to-day. 

Large as well as small concerns are looking for new locations, 
many of them regret their present location and are now investi- 
gating new^ localities. Competition in the respective lines of man- 
ufacturing is now so keen that manufacturers desiring to locate are 
beginning to do so in a systematic manner and go into such details 
as will enable them to decide on a location that is best suitable 
for their particular interests. 

fi: The first thing that is done in this respect is to lay out a gen- 
eral plan of the plant. This plan would show all the necessary 
buildings, allow^ances for future extensions, necessary railroad 
track facilities, ample ground for yard storage and future condi- 
tions. 

The making of the general plan involves detail work in lay- 
ing out the company's equipment and product and arranging same 
so as to effect all economies possible, each department by itself, 
and finally combining them in a general plan of a model layout. 
In conjunction with this the company makes a tabulation showing 
for statistical purposes, amount of raw material it consumes within 
a given period, labor statistics, information regarding amount of 
shipments made and general summary of local conditions for an 
industry already existing, and in case of a new industry, a model 
layout is made with an estimated tabulation of its proposed capac- 
ity of output. With this general plan as a guide and tabulation of 

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its product the manufacturer proceeds to look up a new location 
and begins by obtaining information on 

LOCAL CITY DATA. 

Any information of a local nature can be obtained through the 
Fall River Trade and Industry Association. 

One of the things a manufacturer desires in a new locality is a 
map of the city and vicinity. With this map as reference he notes 
on same all the available sites with special notes as to their prox- 
imity to railroads and navigable waters He also gets large detail 
maps of sites showing amount of ground, acreage, its shipping fa- 
cilities, whether by rail or water, or both, and if he is looking 
for a site with buildings on same obtains detail plans of these 
buildings with general dimensions and other information. 

The next step he takes is to go to the city department and 
obtain information regarding the city water, if any is piped to the 
site, if not, how near it comes to it, the size of the main and the 
city water pressure. He also asks for the cost of the city water 
per I. GOO gallons, whether a flat rate per year, or meter rate, at the 
same time, if possible, obtain analysis of the water to determine 
as to its use for boiler and domestic purposes. 

While the manufacturer is in the city departments he looks up 
the question of assessed valuations, also what percentage of the 
real value is the assessed valuation. The tax rate is also ascer- 
tained, as it is essential for him to obtain approximately the 
company's yearly taxes. The manufacturer then looks into the 
insurance of the factory buildings and equipment by obtaining the 
local base rate. In conjunction with this he inquires as to how 
far the fire department engine house is from the various proposed 
sites, how far awav is the nearest alarm box, the sources of water 
supply, as these have a bearing on the insurance rate independent 
of the class of buildings that are erected. 

TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. 

The matter of transportation is not only in direct relation to 
materials, but also has an important bearing on the labor situation. 
Referring first to materials, a visit is made to the various railroad 
ofiices and the freight rates are obtained on the shipments of the 
manufacturer's product to all the largest cities in both carload and 

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less carload lots. As to the incoming materials freight rates are 
obtained from these points where such materials are shipped from. 
In making the tabulation of freight rates the same cities boch for 
incoming and outgoing freights are used so as to get a true com- 
parison in considering the question of freight rates. In the case 
of those cities that have water transportation the freight rates are 
also obtained and an important point to know in reference to water 
transportation is how many months same is open to navigation, 
and if any site is considered along the water front what is the 
depth of the water at the site. Next to the question of freight 
rates is the service of the railroads. 

There is a lot of other information to be considered, such as 
the population of a proposed locality, the number of industries, the 
banking facilities, the question of power, light and heat in case a 
manufacturer desires to buy same, the cost of the various sites con- 
sidered; all these matters should be considered with the other 
memorandums of information obtained. 

A city that caters to its home industries, keeping them in 
many ways is just the city that secures new industries. 

A city with good water facilities like Fall River, excellent fire 
protection, means low insurance cost for the manufacturer. 

A city with good express, telegraph, telephone, post office 
and banking facilities greatly aids a new industry. 

A city with many of these advantages already described must 
have available sites, and these to be readily accessible is the one 
that finally secures the new industry. 




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Consider first, the time of getting raw material to your plant, 
and the cost and time of delivering your finished goods to 
your customer. After that, consider the labor question, 
climate and other advantages of the locality. :: :: :: 

Ws Aak f o« to ICnralf in iFall Etutr 

, . . BECAUSE . . . 

(That is, all merchandise coming into or shipped out of Fall 
River gets the benefit of New York and Boston rates.) :: 

iFall ISturr ta a Pnrt of iEntvii 

(Having its own custom house, to which goods may be 
shipped in bond.) :: :: :: :: :: ;: :: 

iHall Stu^r l|aa tJ|e IS^st ©ranspnrtattntt JFartltttpa 

(Direct routes by water to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore 
and Providence. By rail direct to all western points, via 
South Framingham.) :: :: :: :: :: :: 

3^E can tell you more in detail of each of these features; then 
**^ we will tell you of our climate, and prove what we tell you; 
we will tell you of the advantages of our natural location; we 
will tell you why fall river is a city to live and grow up in, 
and prove why it is better than most; we will tell you what 
Fall River's educational advantages are, and prove our state- 
ments; we will show you why it is cheaper to live here, and 
prove it; we will show you why Fall River is the natural re- 
tail TRADING center; and why Fall River labor is so good; 
why Fall River is everything that any other city is and then 
some. 

WE CAN PROVE WHAT WE SAY, IF YOU WILL GIVE US A CHANCE 

FOR DIRECT PARTICULARS ADDRESS 

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COTTON CENTENNIAL CARNIVAL! 

A BOOM TO FALL RIVER. 



"THE CITY OF OPPORTUNITY" 
••LOOMS UP." 




The Fall River Merchants' As- 
sociation will conduct a Cotton 
Centennial Celebration in this city 
in June, from the 19th to the 24th 
inclusive. 

Various committees have been 
appointed to have charge of the 
arrangements for the event, by 
President Harry P. Brown, and the 
plan will involve much hard work. 
The following is a list of the com- 
mittees: 

Advertising — E. T. Thompson. 

Automobile Parade — George H-. 



W. 1). WlLMOT, 
(General Secretary of the Carnival. 



Waring 

Badges and Souvenirs- 
Higgins. 



M. M. 



Carnival Parades — W.E. Barker. 
Decorations — F. G. Wells. 



Exposition — O. S. Hawes. 
Finances — Ellis Gitford. Transportation — J. N. Buffinton. 

Historical — E. S. Adams. Trades Parade — J. H. Mahoney. 

Reception — C. D Burt. Publicity — W. D. Wilmot. 

Water Carnival — Frederick Webb. 



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There will also be an advisory committee, consisting of the 
chairmen named above and President Brown. W. D. Wilmot, 
secretary of the association, will be general secretary of the Carni- 
val. 

Every suggestion and every effort to help making the Carnival a 
great big success will be welcome, and if sent to the general sec- 
retary he will see that it is handed to the proper committee. 

All of the committees report wide general interest by the pub- 
lic, and notwithstanding the exhibition committee has not yet be- 
gun asking the manufacturers to place their products in the exhi- 
bition, the manufacturers are of their own accord already sending 
applications for space, and signifying their desire to aid in every 
way they can. From present indications there will be more good 
and interesting exhibits than there will be space. 

Though definite plans have not yet been worked out, it is ex- 
pected that invitations will be extended to President Taft, Gover- 
nor Foss and other prominent men to be present, and the navy 
department will be asked to station light-draft warships in the har- 
bor during the celebration. The plans also call for a civic, trade 
and military parade, an automobile parade, a water carnival, yacht 
races, and an electric parade. There will be automobile sight- 
seeing parades, and the entire week wall be filled with attrac- 
tions for the visitors who are expected in large numbers. 

The committee on Carnival parades has decided to invite the 
mayors of Boston, Providence, Brockton, Taunton, New Bedford 
and Newport to act as judges in awarding prizes for the parade. 

It is expected that the observance of the Centennial will entail 
an expenditure of $10,000, at least, which will be met by the 
merchants and by private subscription. 

The proposed celebration will be in observance of the looth 
anniversary of the building of the first cotton mill here, the little 
stone mill still standing at the corner of South Main and Globe 
streets, and in connection with it, it is. planned to have a notable 
exhibition of the city's products. 

Displays will be made of Fall River's products in the Armory, 
which has been secured for that purpose, as well as at other 
places. 

The board of directors of the Bradford Durfee Textile school 
met and considered favorably the request made by Chairmain 
O. S. Hawes of the exposition committee for the use of the Tex- 
tile school building during carnival week. 

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From all that can be learned, everyone connected with the 
Bradford Durfee Textile school is heartily earnest and enthusias- 
tic in a desire to make the exhibit in the Textile school the most 
interesting and instructive part of the celebration. Besides mak- 
ing an elaborate display of their machinery they will have an art 
•exhibit of the finest. 

This same spirit of enthusiasm and emulation is growing 
throughout Fall River, and when Fall River makes up her mind 
to do things, things are always done well. 

The Water Carnival committee, of which Frederick Webb is the 
■chairman, reports that the officers of the Hicks' Bridge Boat Rac- 
ing Association have promised to bring their fast boats to Mount 
Hope Bay on regatta day. 

Another interesting feature for regatta day will be an exhibi- 
tion of whale harpooning by regular whalers' crews in real whale 



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boats, the crews, boat steerers and harpooners, etc, coming from 
New Bedford, and a unique exhibition is promised. 

The meeting of the Merchants' Association was held in Music 
hall. President Brown reported that the executive committee had 
held several meetings to consider the proposed celebration of the 
Centennial. He asked for an expression of opinion from the 
members of the association and for instructions from them as to 
whether or not such a celebration should be held. 

John M. Young moved "That the association approve of hold- 
ing a Cotton Centennial Carnival and leave the working out and 
arranging for the same in the hands of the executive committee." 
It was seconded by several members, and after a brief discussion 
the motion was carried by unanimous vote. 

The one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the 
cotton industry in Fall River is an event worthy of celebration. 
Massachusetts leads the country in the number of spindles, the 
census report for 19 lo showing 9,835,610, or 37 per cent of the 
total number in the United States, and of these Fall River has 
more than three millions more than are credited to the entire 
State of Rhode Island, which was the first to spin cotton success- 
fully by water-power. It was in iSii that Colonel Joseph Durfee, 
a Revolutionary soldier, built a small mill in the section of Fall 
River now known as Globe Village. "The oldest mill in Fall 
River" is still standing; its stone walls apparently are as substan- 
tial as when they first inclosed spinning machinery, and the cit}'' 
is fortunate in having the ancient Durfee mill to exhibit to visitors 
for the purpose of showing the remarkable advances made in con- 
struction during the past one hundred years. 

Col. Joseph Durfee was the owner, but whether the structure as 
it stands today is the result of the original plans, although it is- 
probable that it is, is not known, because legend has it — there is 
no history extant of it — that the first building was of wood and 
was destroyed by fire in 1838. However, there is no doubt as to 
its original owner. 

Col. Joseph Durfee was the son of Hon. Thos. Durfee and 
Patience Borden, who were married in Tiverton, R. I., August 9th,. 
1749. They had twelve children, one being Col. Joseph Durfee, 
who was born April 27th, 1750, and died in 1841, and his remains 
interred in the North cemetery. Fall River. 

His residence in 181 1 was the old gambrel-roofed house that 
stood on the spot now occupied by the building at the corner of 

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South Main and Slade streets in which Dr. Normand's drug store 
is located. 

Col. Diafee commanded the local troops that defended this sec- 
tion when the British troops raided it in May, 1778. After the 
war, he was elected town assessor and for many years represented 
Tiverton in the General Assembly, which then generally convened 
at Newport. 

One of the privileges of his farm, which was bounded on the 
north by what is now Freedom street and on the south by Birch 
street, then, of course, not in existence, on the east by the Watuppa 
pond and on the west by Mt. Hope bay, was the stream that leads 
from Laurel lake or Cook pond to the bay named, but his "brook" 
was considered of little value for manufacturing purposes. But 
he had associated with far-seeing men during his years in Newport 
and in 181 1 he joined forces with several of them and began to 
improve his water supply. A dam was erected at the southeast 
corner of the present building and another was placed at the out- 
let of the main pond. The channel between the two was deep- 
ened and widened and the water was allowed to back up on the 
surrounding land. This is how the Globe or Slade pond was 
formed. 

Then the mill was built. The lower floor was fitted for a store- 
house, machine shop and wheel pit. The second floor contained 
about six breakers and finishers, and the third story was used as a 
spinning, sorting and reeling room. The cotton was sent out in 
bundles to the wives of neighboring farmers who picked from it 
the seed that the crude ginning of the time allowed to remain in 
it. There were no looms in the mill and the weaving of the spun 
yarn was done by these same women. 

The number of spindles in the mill is believed to have been 
about 500. 

The water wheel was the cause of many mishaps. It was 
known as a "tub" and the floats were placed diagonally with the 
axis, and water was conveyed to them in one solid stream. It 
was impossible to govern its speed, and it was no uncommon 
thing for the operatives to see their machines fall apart as the 
power increased or slow down to the stopping point as it de- 
creased. The damage caused by the "tub" was very serious and 
eventually it became necessary to supplant it with a "breast" 
wheel. 

The rest of the machinery also gave no end of trouble. There 

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were no speeders, mules, slubbers or trimming frames in those days 
and the queer old substitutes would cause no end of labor troubles 
at the present time. 

The wages were small, a mason who worked on it receiving 
about seven shillings a day, while one operative worked for two 
years for $1.20 per week. Sixteen hours constituted a working day. 

The mill passed through several hands and then the machinery 
was removed and machinery for the printing of calico substituted. 
Potter & Chatburn were the new owners and it took an entire year 
to effect the change. Later, it became necessary to enlarge the 
plant and an addition to the north end was erected for the use of 
the engravers. 

Along about this time, Holder Borden was in charge of the 
plant for a while. 

From 1835 ^^ 1^39 ^^^^ place was known as the Tiverton Print 
Works. Walter C. Durfee, who was many years afterward agent 
and treasurer of the Wampanoag mills, conducted the works from 
1839 ^^ 1842 and among those who worked there was Samuel B. 
Wilcox of Bay street, who served in the common council from old 
ward one and who died a few years ago at a ripe old age. 

In 1843 and 1844 Prentiss & Marvel were m control. The 
senior member of the firm was the father of Junius P. Prentiss, 
who later owned the Fall River Laundry, and Mr. Marvel was 
William Marvel, afterward the senior member of Marvel & Davol. 

In 1845 ^^^^ place was purchased by W. & C. Chapin, and from 
that year on until about 1853 affairs went along prosperously. 
The Bay State Print Works, with its extensive plant, was estab- 
lished in the last named year and there were halycon days for 
Globe Village for about a decade. 

In 1858 the Bay State Print Works, including the old mill, were 
purchased by the American Print Works Co. Since then the old 
mill has been either unused or used as a storehouse. 

In 1876, after the plant had been idle for several years, the 
whole property was sold to a syndicate headed by the late George 
F. Mellen. 

At the present time the old mill is owned by the (jlobe Yarn 
and Laurel Lake Mill Cos., and is held by them because its own- 
ership controls in part the water privileges of the aforementioned 
"brook/' 

A little more about the career of Col. Durfee might make inter- 
esting reading. He was the son of Hon. Thomas Durfee and 

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shortly after the breaking out of the Revolution he received a cap- 
tain's commission in the Continental Army, and under this author- 
ity organized a band of "minute" men for the protection of this 
section. Subsequently, he, with a company of 60 men, marched 
to the American camp at White Plains, N. Y., and took part in 
the operations in that vicinity. 

Later, he was made a major and returned to this section to 
forestall the depredations of the British in Little Compton. Before 
the close of the war, he had risen to a lieutenant-colonelcy and 
served under General Sullivan in the battle of Rhode Island. In 
the final portion of his life he suffered much with rheumatism and 
at time was obliged to use two canes to get about. During Gen. 
Jackson's incumbency of the presidency, he received back pension 
amounting to $800, and a monthly pension of $40 per month. He 
was 92 years old when he died. 

A century of cotton spinning in Fall River affords excellent op- 
portunities for exploiting the resources and advantages of the 
greatest city of spindles on the American continent. Suitable ob- 
servance of the first century of its textile industry in Fall River, 
therefore will appeal directly to thousands. Although Rhode 
Island has the credit of starting the cotton industry. Fall River 
has the distinction of surpassing all other cities and towns in the 
number of spindles. This achievement is one that calls for an 
elaborate and dignified centennial programme which will appeal to 
the entire country, and not to New^ England alone. 

Twenty years ago it w^as said that the cotton mills of New Eng- 
land were about to be closed because of the superior advantages 
of the South. Southern mills have done well, it is true, but today 
Fall River has about as many spindles as either of the two largest 
cotton manufacturing States of the South — North and South Car- 
olina; while Massachusetts has increased its manufacturing to an 
extent that seemed impossible when the South began to build 
modern mills. Some note should be taken of this remarkable 
showing. It is fitting that Fall River should honor the name of 
Durfee and at the same time give an ample demonstration of the 
supremacy of Massachusetts men and methods in the cotton man- 
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CAPITAL - - - $1,250,000 

LEONTINE LINCOLN, President 
FRANK L. CARPENTER, Treasurer 
JAMES A. McLANE, Superintendent 
GEORGE K. BROWN, Bookkeeper 

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DANIEL H. CORNELL JOHN H. ESTES F. L. CARPENTER 

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Amoskeag Mt'e. Co.. Manchester. N. H., 
American Woolen Co., Ronton, Mas?.. 
NonquH Spinninsr Co.. >'ew Bedford. Mass., 
Pacific Mills, Cocheco Dept., Dover, N. H., 
B, B. & R. Knight, Providence, R. I. 
Anglo. Newfoundland Development Co., Grand 

Falls, Newfoundland, 
Farr Alpaca Co, , Hoi joke. Mass,, 
Atlantic Mills, Olnejville, R. I., 
Crocker, Burbank & Co.,'.Fitchburg, Mass. 
Manooiet Mills. New Bedford. Mass.. 
Lyman Mills, Holyoke, Mass., 
Quissett Mills, New Bedford, Mass. 
Berkshire "Wills. Adams, M.ass., 
Whitm Machine, Whitinsville, Mass., 
Dartmouth Mfg. Corp., New Bedford. Mass., 
Sh.arpe Mfg. Co., New Bedford, Mass., 
Taber Mills, Sew Bedford, Mass.. 
U. S. Finishing Co., Providence, R. I., 
Bigelow Carpet Co., Clinton. Mass.. 
American Printing Co.. F.all River. Mass., 
Davis Mills. Fall River, Mass.. 
Orswald Mills. Fitchburg, Mass.. 
Fall River Blcachery. Fall River, Mass., 
New Bedford (Cotton Corp., New Redford,Mas£ 
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Flint Mills, Fall River. Mass.. 
Lincoln Mills, Fall River, Mass., 
Lancaster Mills. Clinton, Mass.. 
Fitchburg Tarn Co., Fitchburg, M.ass., 
Fitchburg Paper Co,, Fitchburg. Mass., 
International Paper Co,, New York, N. Y., 
Everett -Mills, Lawrence, Mass., 
Border City Mfg. Co., Fall River, Mass., 
Hathaway Mfg. Co.. New Bedford, Mass., 
Bigelow, Harriman Construction Co,, 

Montville, Conn,, 
S. H. Greene & Son. Riverpoint. R. I., 
Byron Weston Co.. Dalton. Mass., 
Lawton Spinning Co., woonsocket, R. I,, 
Greylock^MiUs, North Adiims. Mass., 
Butler Hospital, Providence, R, I., 
Chase Mills, Fall River, Mass.. 
Aspinook Co.. Jewett City, N, J., 
Nashua Mfg. Co., Naslina, N. H.. 
Princeton College, Princton, N. J.. 
Joseph Benn & Sons, Centredale, R. I. , 
New Bedford & Agawam Finishing Co., 

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Mt. Hope Finishing Co., No. Dighton, Mass., 
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Land For Manufacturing Purposes 
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FALL RIVER TRADE m INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION 

The Pilg"i-im Land Co. have offered throng'h tlie Fall River 
Trade ^Nc Industry Association, to give two acres of land at the 
southwesterly corner of Byron avenue and Taft street, to be had 
for manufacturing purposes, and part of it can be obtained for a 
factory or factories that will employ at least fifty persons; and 
same shall be conveyed to parties building a factory to cost, when 
completed, not less than $8000, and has at least S4000 worth of 
labor and material put into it. 

For further particulars apply to the President or Secretary of 
the Association. 

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FALL RIVER, MASS. 



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